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Lisa Russ Spaar has published over ten books of poetry and criticism, most recently Monticello in Mind: 50 Contemporary Poems on Jefferson and Orexia: Poems. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English at the University of Virginia.
With sight aborted would I be
you, bloodstone chamber
beside the lost-to-me river?
You be my business?
Not these words that return you
only in dreams
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