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The Treachery of Poetry

(Anton Uniqueton)

“How/it both is, and is not/a type of existence.”

after Magritte

 

This is not another poem about the moon

or the last strawberry popsicle of August

or how the cherry blossoms last eight days.

 

Consider instead: the ride home, arrested

by a sunset,

or the eclipse.

Either way,

 

in the same way

that Magritte never

painted a pipe. How

it both is, and is not

 

a type of existence. How

every end is also

a beginning. How

the last line wraps

 

back in the same way

the moon swallows

the sun.

 

Alison Lubar’s poetry collection, The Other Tree, was the recipient of Harbor Editions’ 2024 Laureate Prize. They are the author of four chapbooks: Philosophers Know Nothing About Love, which was released with Thirty West in 2022; queer feast, which was released with Bottlecap Press in 2022; sweet euphemism, which was released with CLASH! in 2023; and It Skips a Generation, which was released with Stanchion in 2023; as well as one full-length, METAMOURPHOSIS, which was released with fifth wheel press in 2024. 

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