The Emerson Review Vol. 50

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eyebrows. Any language I speak I bought used, scratched up and painted over, none ever complete while another one breathes. The words I toss join in a roundelay of ethnography, and I am left a naked canvas, pencil-scarred and stretched linen, learning the alphabet.

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