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FURTHER READING
Poems by Catherine Wagner
Everyone in the room is a representative of the world at large
Essays by Catherine Wagner
The Politics of Meter: on Traditional Forms
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Air Envelope

 
by Catherine Wagner

A skylight stippled
Wet, scatted
With translucent brown maple seedwings

I'm under that

I wrote it as if it were a poem
And my handy margin
Would profit me.

The notebook margin
Lends to me
Its frugal axis, asking
Nothing, determinist
Of route, but blandly so.

"I didn't know."

Push forward
The bag of skin
Scaffolded animated
And house at the same time

The hinge we turn on
Wrap around night
Becomes day, same page
We're on it.









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