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The will to sadness

“la volonté de tristesse”—drawing by Alejandra Pizarnik (from The Galloping Hour: French Poems) one ought to remain at least partially buried at all times let lost pieces of oneself get eaten by opossums one must learn to read the paper upside-down and backwards give names to the flies but not to the joyful spider and when one is invited to dance one must not cling as if drowning one who is oneself a sort of small salt lake one must follow decorum as one follows the weather everything one knows about rhythm

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Dave Bonta

Valentine’s Day dreams

First an opossum crawls into our bed. He’s tame, you cry. Those are just love-bites. Then it’s a long-haired white cat, purring and snuggling. Get her out of here, you groan. I wake to a heavy snowfall, the old dog statue in the yard just a bump under the blanket.

Dave Bonta

Miner

Opossum out at mid-day on the glare ice wipes its snout with its paws. It’s digging through the crust to reach food we’ve pitched— old barbecue sauce, rotten cabbage— inserting its head as if through the shell of a great white egg…

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