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ShardAuthor(s): Laura NicholsSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Summer, 2001), p. 94Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20154916 .
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This is a party
fingers inching down the glass bottle's beaded neck
aluminum cans thrown off the roofs edge
the sUp and clamor of foot traffic
Dust catches itself in suspension like the freeze-frame of an action film
It is an amber Ught
(Ught's fiber) I'm told
that whiskey with its firm brown grip is the only honest handshake anymore
There is no path from any angle to the Swan Nebula
from this city roof
only the blank-hour ch?l
and gravel scuttling under my knuckles
I see the television's convex screen as graph paper
the news reporter's microphone black ink attacking the page
buUets smaUer rubs of graphite
aUgned in an arc of parallax
Tonight the pen's ink dries quickly there is no line of sight to the Swan Nebula
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