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Shafer Hall & Ada Limon: What the Back of the Eyepatch     Looks Like

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

Sometimes a light comes out of nowhere
which turns the nowhere into a somewhere
which makes the sea into a room
and my brain stops hurting – first time in days.

Walls and Walls! So nice to be held in
as opposed to held out or held up, pirates
like most wild animals crave a cave sometimes
when the waves are caving in on us.

And the sea can be a grave too, giant
ghosts horn in the fog all goddamn night
like the night was a closet and us defiant
moths pinballing from wool to wool without eyes.

Filed Under: Contributors 74, Issue 74, Poetry, Poetry 74 Tagged With: Ada Limón, Contributors 74, Poetry, Poetry 74, Shafer Hall

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