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After Reading Books by Claudia Rankine

footnotes the movement

            from a railing   sunk to

the bottom a

Davy Jones’ Locker

a foot hold     find first read   

it was Willy that got drown ded    

            year and date

deep blue sea sourced material

the fact-checking              right there

            as you are, sir

case closed                 obedient 

        ly  to history studied

all-nighter arteries of comprehension slit slat

pushed everything up    out

      rising in the throat

       nauseous              until

the other picture

becomes       the reversal

a feathered hope watering down

those years so many.