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The Elegant Trogon and Poem for Robert Desnos
“I have/a secret pigeon in my heart./I keep it in a cage composed of object lessons and feed it/moral law.”
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Publisher's Note:
This work is preserved in Merion West’s archive of articles and poems published from 2016 through early 2025. Explore the archive