Is this a mantra? mantra ofAuthor(s): MARIANNE BORUCHSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Winter 2009/10), p. 98Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20722051 .

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Is this a mantra? mantra of

Is this a mantra? mantra of

dust?I don't know I

don't know I don't know?mantra of the million times one says

a million times. My mother floated between us at the end like some

island adrift, broken off

the continent. And we kept alert

for sightings, stirrings, any

coming to that might

might might?another mantra we kept at each night,

returning to that house

with her not in it.

But she's not in the hospital either?

my brother, so bluntly.

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