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Bring Us a Souvenir
from the Next War

by Mark Bibbins

In Antwerp this afternoon the Museum of Anaesthesia,
the reason one goes to Antwerp, is closed. A way

to translate nowhere into nothing and the inhalation
thereof becomes a boon, a freak rush around the sun.
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Poem of the WeekMark  Bibbins

Mark Bibbins is the author of The Dance of No Hard Feelings (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and Sky Lounge, which received a Lambda Literary Award. A 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow, he teaches in the graduate writing program at the New School and at Columbia University. Bibbins lives in New York City.

Poems of the Week: 2009-2010

Poems of the Week: 2009-2010


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