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& how, o spirits, shall I invoke you, who cannot count himself
among the chosen?
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Propping his tripod, Hine remembers
Childhood snowfall in Wisconsin,
Flakes careening in prairie wind,
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—author of the earliest known signature

That arrow & life were homonyms. That his name
Predates all others, incised sunbaked on a slab
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From &Quot;Spirit Cabinet&Quot;

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& how, o spirits, shall I invoke you, who cannot count himself
among the chosen?
My writings & keenings are interior & treated by appropriate
prescription drugs,

to whom my conversion is incomplete, for some days I devote myself
solely to my dead
& in my error I do seek them & do wail. From the wire mesh
I glimpse the chalk marks,

aflicker on a kind of slate. Here is the glyph of patchouli-smell,
graven on a scarf
or silken dress. & here the character for a chin nicked while shaving,
stubble edging a dime-sized birthmark,

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