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MY SENTENCE

—spring wind with its

train of spoons,

kidney-bean shaped

pools, Floridian

humus, cicadas with their

electric appliance hum, cricket

pulse of dusk under

the pixilate gold of the trees, fall’s

finish, snow’s white

afterlife, death’s breath

finishing the monologue Phenomena, The Most Beautiful Girl you

carved the word because you craved the world—

Dana Levin

(United States of America, 1965)

Dana Levin grew up in California’s Mojave Desert and earned a BA from Pitzer College and an MA from New York University. Her free-verse, image-driven poems grapple with the legacies of both Confessionalism and Language poetry by engaging and questioning the self, while using line breaks, punctuation, and syntax as primarily sound-driven tools. In a 2008 interview with the Kenyon Review, Levin n...

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MY SENTENCE

—spring wind with its

train of spoons,

kidney-bean shaped

pools, Floridian

humus, cicadas with their

electric appliance hum, cricket

pulse of dusk under

the pixilate gold of the trees, fall’s

finish, snow’s white

afterlife, death’s breath

finishing the monologue Phenomena, The Most Beautiful Girl you

carved the word because you craved the world—

MY SENTENCE

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