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You already see at the mouth.

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I taught a class on poetry
and the unconscious,

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and I brought in
some Eurydice poems.

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This is how I led myself
out of a place so dark

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that when I looked back, I could
not see it or refuse to see it.

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These words came as water.

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My body writ in water,
turning through memory

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in search of the
lapidary inscription.

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The answer and what
binds me to my death.

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If I will find it.

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If I will let it drown.

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If I will use it to
write this instead.

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What would it be to
match the depths of hell

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with my own light?

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Made and mangled as
a beast that bites

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both what is good and evil.

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Fingers groping
for a face through

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the black and invisible.

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Wet feet clawing on the
maw of the underworld.

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I was a woman.

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I suffered.

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I was there.

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It is late where you are
and where I come from.

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