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A poem which was
published along with the

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found poem in the
Catholic Worker,

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and they sort of made
a pair, because they

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were in fact written--

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I don't think-- it wasn't
the found poem, that

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was published with it-
it was the other one that

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has the words, "rubble
dust, meat pulse,"

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the one called "Witnessing
from Afar the New

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Escalation of Savage Power."

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That was paired with this
poem I'm about to read,

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and in fact was written
concurrently with it.

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And I've now forgotten
which was written first.

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I think that one was, and
this must have been second.

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It's called, "Suspended."

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"I had grasped God's
garment in the void,

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but my hand slipped on
the rich silk of it.

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The everlasting arms my
sister loved to remember

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must have upheld my leaden
weight from falling.

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Even so, for though I clawed
empty air, and feel nothing,

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no embrace, I have
not plummeted."

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