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If I were half as free as you
I wouldn’t droop,
make faces of parchment,
shed branches like phantoms,
wouldn’t hide
a heart of soft scarlet.

If you were half as free as me
you wouldn’t go—
you who leave not once, like guests,
but over and over, like friends.

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March 9, 2023

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Jesse Nathan

Jesse Nathan’s first book of poems, Eggtooth, will be published in September. (March 2023)

This Issue

March 9, 2023

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