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  • The American Poetry Review

    FIVE POEMS

    Mar 01, 2019 2 minutes
    LANDON GODFREY

    Quilt

    Not humble, a quilt takes credit for inventing cinema. Jump cuts? Sure—look: two shepherdesses

    evading rockets. And here’s rosefilled toile-land again. Other quilts at the bottom of the fulllinen chest

    running away from bad shepherds in toile-l and flip adjacent squares: stars & elephants. Some cloth taxis

    brag they devised city planning & graph paper. The suffocating chest weeps for the

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