Illinois Arts Council, the Lannan Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts
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The Best American Poetry of 1998, The Breadloaf Anthology of Comtemporary American Poetry, DoubleTake, The English Record, The Iron Horse Literary Review, The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Water-Stone.
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grew larger by my absence to another,
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in every leaf and branching decision, snug inside each fast bud, together in the flower, and again in the pulp, mingling in the fragrance of the first mouthful and the last.
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And the apple tree. Look and see the entire lineage alive
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And that’s why you’re divided: yes and no.
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you can’t love except by remembering.
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and that’s why you can’t sleep except by forgetting,