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Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery

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Is There a Calmliness in Queer Desire?

I don't know if such calmliness refers to being in the company of these trees, because it follows immediately we may tell each other of each other. There is a kind of knowing and desire that is passed on through these sites. The trees are saying, we just hang out here all the time, that's what we do. Say the trees to the, it's almost like a queer Dr. Sue story. And I cannot stop here and come in calmliness. If we are really growing that. Well, for sure, suddenly too. I've been puddling about it suddenly for years.

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