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    The Last Note

    Jack Galmitz

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    For Sabine and Susan

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    The Last Note

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    The last noteCopyrightJack Galmitz, 2014ImPress, New York, New York

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    I.The Poetics of Space

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    The walls, shape, size,color, number, running water

    the borders of a child

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    Mezuza hammered inenter a place

    with a small sink

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    Kiss the mezuzathe couch has plastic covers

    the floor is faded

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    concentratedin the wall paper

    experiences

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    A placecolored like a parakeet

    with a parakeet

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    Beginnings...a chipped gray dresser

    with Nazi medals

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    The mole in the kitchenbecame the subject

    of selection of species

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    Mother would offerthe maintenance men water

    then boil their glasses

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    II.

    Space as Poetics

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    The paper blankand the sun

    has crossed out the night

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    Throw yourself

    into spacelike a piece of paper

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    balanced on a bikethe earth

    is a satellite

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    The garden is lostthe new neighbor

    re placed grass for concrete

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    She moves like a windowin a frame

    that slides open

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    I call and call

    but receive no answercrossing a bridge without parents

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    Handling a balla wild animalenthralled

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    a dancean ancient one

    I enter

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    III.The World as Body

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    She placed her handinside my bathing suit-

    the sea sighed

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    The sand dunes shiftedovernight I found

    the bone of a seabird s wing

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    She stuck out her tongueand I sucked it into begin again

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    When I enteredShe posed as a Klimt painting

    the smaller way

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    As she strokedand stroked faster

    who could question her being anyway

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    I walked in the snowloving the crunch underfootas the fire waiting at home

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    The satisfactionhearing the sun creaking by

    the earth another year

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    The shadowscrossing the paperhave gradations

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    I love the seathe way it takes you

    completely in

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    The seawallis slapped and slapped

    like an unfaithful lover

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    Like a farmerplowing a field

    scattering seeds in order

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    Through filmy curtainsthick flakes of snow fallingdrinking coffee, smoking

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    Was that a godor a man

    in the woods appear

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    Splitting woodfor winter

    his back bends over

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    Smoke from the chimneysnow tall as a fence

    they re warm within bed

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    IV.The Body as Word

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    The seaan idea

    of tranquility

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    Distant mountains

    are upside downon the retina

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    The treenot a tree

    without branches

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    It is simpleto turn a cat into a dogjust say it

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    Do I see what I see

    because there oncewas a gray dresser

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    Do I think I deservelittlebecause the sink was small

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    In the darkwithout handsI embrace you

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    The lacquered boxshines in your eyes

    like your eyes

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    Without wordsyou are there

    in what you ve been seeking

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    I am a cow

    mounted by a bullmounting a cow

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    Without a nameI do not recognize

    anything

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    I am an imagetransferred to canvas

    and canvas

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    I don t know whatmade me create water

    perhaps self reflection

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    Ages henceyou ll come upon mein a blade of grass