Mimicry grasped instantly.(Poem)

From: The Literary Review | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Schuldt | Copyright information

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This is not just instant. It is all grasped. Not just mimicry. Poetry. In subtle shifts and twists the material is bestirring itself, and as it comes alive, irridescent effects are revealed, cameos proffered, or those succinct and sweeping statements laid bare that more commonly gravitate to fortune cookies whose inner void they never fail to fill to the brim.

Whatever there is, whatever you see, has been transformed. It is what it...

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