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Mar/Apr 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 2 |

Imani

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You would tell me about Ulmus alata and the moths
notched on its twigs. You liked the particular.
I would tell you about the bark cracking the sidewalk,
how a thing can look like a noise. The wood—
it must be dead—mouths Ganoderma lucidum,

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