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NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION by JAMES HARRISON

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First Line: THE ANNOUNCEMENT SAID GET TO THE HIGH GROUND
Last Line: THEIR TEETHHOLD ON THE STOMACH.
Subject(s): ANGER; ITALY; WISHES; ITALIANS;
The announcement said get to the high ground
but we were unable to move while the waters
crept up to the window, peeked in, then receded.
There was a fish near the mailbox, a lake trout
with two immature lamprey eels dangling from
their teethhold on the stomach.



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