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Winter 2004 • Vol. XXVI No. 1 • Poetry |

Summer, Here

In the beginning, the unbelievable burgeoning.
Did I plant these things in the garden?
What in God’s name are they?

In the beginning…
Electricity turned to flesh. A billion
nerves softened and shocked into blossom, slopped

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Laura Kasischke has published eight collections of poetry. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 2011 for Space, in Chains (Copper Canyon). She teaches at the University of Michigan.

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