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BE MY FOREGROUND

Travel from one place to another so that a day is old

and French words for sleep are cheerful and festive.

I worry that all the fun will kill me

like a good playing card, a dance card,

a dramatic card, a race card,

a baseball card, and a chairman's

grab at my linen underclothes.

For an intense lamp is not the sun.

A church, go there. Here is where faith lives.

A temple. Here is where devotion washes.

A sand dune is two bodies.

Made for the kitchen, made for drink,

made for the reader, made for life,

topological, having no outside, I fear

or inside, a province of smallness,

and how I cling to your end.

Here by a wreck of a road.

--Prageeta Sharma, from Fence, Volume 10