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Spencer Clark French
Spencer Clark French is a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame.
Oh, little moth of clarity
Oh, little moth of clarity,
why do you now hide?
In the past I knew you well—
devouring every disguise,
gnawing my closet to shambles,
exposing the bones inside:...
Sitting beside a fire, the poet pleads for a sign
Bumbling out of the night,
something veers near the fire,
wings seared swiftly away;
it squirms in the suburbs of the blaze....
December thaw
Mist rose from every morsel as if all of earth exhaled...
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