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By Gillian Sze

Commencing from the parable of human construction, this poetic assortment explores the person as a sentient secret. the 1st part examines missed moments with city characters—the girl at the bus, a neighbor chatting with crops, or the woman smoking after a typhoon. the second one part takes a confessional flip in the direction of the author’s internal existence. every now and then reflective, tutorial, playful, or unusual, exception is located within the ineffable differences among humans, selves, items, and histories.

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One will describe the pain like a sword that pierces diagonally through the torso; the other will push on his back to get it out. I made us a terrible memory. I wash my white shirt the next morning in the bathroom sink. I wear black as I scrub. I am grieving over dirty cotton, grass stains, all of yesterday that ever happened. When you sat in the shower stall with your head sad on your knees, I stood watering you, waiting for you to grow. 53 FIDDLEWOOD I’ve been looking for you in a drizzled forest, chewing its damp edges and twigs, sucking balled dew through my teeth.

But Delilah loved it, didn’t see it as bored at the time. It was just how he looked. Ordinary, with his brown eyes and brown hair and broad face. When Sally was introduced to him, Delilah later asked, Isn’t he handsome? Sally just said, He kinda looks like a squash. 34 v. Delilah lost the baby two months in. She doesn’t like the details and tries to forget most of them. All she knows is that shortly after, Thomas stopped coming home at night. Sometimes he’d be gone for two whole days. Delilah started reading the book Sally gave her and would write Post-it notes to herself that she’d stick to the bottom of her underwear drawer.

There is a secret up here, you’re certain. Up here, you can confirm whether Beethoven really dunked his head in cold water to stay awake, or the Trojan horse was worth all the hearsay, or whether Death stops at your toes. You want the painted door back. You drew it to get to the next room. But looking down, even the waves of the river’s current jump at you like startled eyebrows. 38 10/18/09 A finished espresso crusts the afternoon someone tosses popcorn out the passenger window and pigeons ignore traffic the raised pant leg of a cyclist bares a Herculean calf, just as it presses on the pedal a puppy leads the way deserted ice sits outside the grocery store; bits of broccoli find their way through as it melts someone buys yesterday’s newspaper a man grieves for his father the fossilized tire print becomes brittle in mud the sun throws a milky gaze over all that pales.

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