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Editor’s Note: This poem appeared in the Aug. 7 Book Review with a word erroneously added to the first line and missing the next-to-last stanza. Here is the poem in its entirety.
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stone in water
growing
still
water in stone
still
growing
in the I whose eye
in the eye what sky
in the sky where’s I
ow-ow-ow-ow-howl
ow-ow-ow-ow-owl
ow-ow-ow-ow-wow
ow-ow-ow-ow-bow
the nothingness of all
the whole in the hole
how perfect a fit
From “Stone Bow Prayer”
(Copper Canyon Press:
130 pp., $14 )
