A shelf of memory calving into the sea
like an Antarctic glacier on TV
these scenes of climate change
heightening the senescence
we try to fathom day by day
as yet another point of reference
quietly crashes away
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A shelf of memory calving into the sea
like an Antarctic glacier on TV
these scenes of climate change
heightening the senescence
we try to fathom day by day
as yet another point of reference
quietly crashes away
Richard Sieburth is, most recently, the translator and editor of Late Fragments by Charles Baudelaire. (June 2022)
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