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Sean Patrick Hill

Glass

I dream I am sifting through ash trays for coins.

A casket cut from glass, I am pulled from an oven.
I crack in the cold bath.

Waking in a bed of hot coals, pockets of dust,
I imagine building a temple in my chest,

My heart growing so large it can touch
All sides of the coffin at once.

I was preparing for it as if it were something tremendous

    after Epictetus

Poets, a funny breed.

Always waiting on word
of their submission.

Postcards from the road.
Whitman worn to threads.

Even the sun does everything
for its own sake.

The poems of Archilochus
were discovered
on linen
used to wrap mummies-

Nightjars, coffin birds.

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