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Saeed Jones Reads Deborah Digges

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Power of the You

There's almost a sense that the spell quality creates the you. And those lines like when you study dry tier streaks on your cheeks, like a farmer figuring out where the season went wrong is really elemental. That seems also part of the spell. But I think that that forgetting too is there. You know, because what's the actual spell for banishing grief easy? It is to forget that the relationship existed to never remember or honor or love whoever you lost. We don't get to choose, unfortunately.

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