MACGREGOR CARD is a poet and bibliographer living in Brooklyn. He was co-editor of The Germ. He is co-editing an anthology of the New York School. Recent poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Aufgabe, The Recluse, KGB Lit, Fence and Best American Poetry.
A hurricane is stripping the woods
A key will be my dwelling
The feint of a fire the heart confirms
And the air whose capture seized it
—René Char, "Effacement du peuplier"
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Is it possible to know
you must apologize
with everything you have
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