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translation from the Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval

A Horrible Shock
     All floors are false
          —M.L.

Worse than not being able to fly or soar
—futile dream of the soul—
is the horrible shock of not being able to lie down
or lean against anything

because

it gives way.    

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   Contributor’s notes: Circe Maia
   Contributor’s notes: Jesse Lee Kercheval

   The Bridge
   Compositions
   A Horrible Shock
   Incarnations
   In Memoriam
   Scars

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