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| At L.L. Bean, Freeport, Maine. Photo by Erin O'Brien Schlicher. |
It seemed as if
we were swimming
up the arteries of fish
like as if it was like
like sheep like tire tracks
there was an eel too
it seemed a warning
backwards in Icelandic
If you enjoyed this poem, why not. . .
—an erasure of the poem "Auden in the Aquarium," the Paris Review, Spring 2000.
