Lantern Review: A Journal of Asian American Poetry
Issue 1 | June 2010

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to desire is to live, if only a little, in the possession of an object.

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maybe we were never meant
to raise to the surface that
which lives in the depths—

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to have/ is to lose/ the grammar/ of

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in freedom—fluorescent in their
self-illumination, gargantuan and
strange-skinned they are
unquantifiable

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landscape and borders oceans open in deserts

skin, bones, blood distinguish pronouns

from other pronouns

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