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Yanyi's "Detail" - by Devin Kelly

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Thoughts on attention and how we share it.

I’m wiping the glue off an old book, a fact so small who knows if I would have told it to you. Afterward, there continue these accumulations. We woke at this time and spoke first to each other each day for three years, and now what? I was in love and once illuminated. Now I am alone. Peddling in plain morning like a god who walks toward a street of only birds. Only in their singing do they fly apart and grow their understanding. from New England Review (Issue 42.3, 2021) I have read and re-read this poem so many times. It is, like so many poems are, something that rewards…

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