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And this poem actually
includes Selina, who

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shows up a lot in the poses.

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"Letter to Gravity"

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"Never think I have
forgotten your kindness,

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nor has it escaped
me that it comes

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tendered without my asking.

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Even in spells of counting
myself bereft of all else,

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I have not failed to find solace
in the field of your force,

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held fast to the mantle,
stretched in corpse pose,

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scanning the length of my body.

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I wager existence on my
weight pressing the mattress.

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As I tell you this,
I fall heavier still.

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No countervailing
aorta, no sulcus,

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not subject to your
pull, drawing me here.

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No one else comes this
close, but tonight Selina

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told me how she reached
for the doorknob

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at the top of the marble
stairs and her hand slipped,

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and all the weight
she gave to pulling

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reeled her back, spine sudden
on stone, and on a middle stair,

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she managed once
to brace herself,

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but couldn't correct
the trajectory.

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Couldn't you let up
just for a moment?

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And as she told me the
story, at each pause,

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I wanted something
to break her fall,

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but she kept tumbling from
one clause to the next,

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until she slumped on the
landing, and I see now,

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this is how it is with
you, even as I turn over

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to you the task of holding
my body down like this.

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I do so, dead reckoning
the terms of your gift

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to matter, hammer, feather,
you never make an exception."

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