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tense
benjamin s. grossberg
my species has one for nouns
in the process of passing: say,
a planet you no longer stand on
but which still exerts on（施加于） you its
considerable 1, the fist
of its massy core reaching
up through groin（腹股沟） and torso（躯干）.
a way, then, to say, not i am
on this world or i was, but
that other state, the one
between. we use it to discuss
the dying -- though usually not
to their faces -- and dinner --
as plates are cleared -- also love
in its last phases, the sharp
jerk before it, too, falls back
lifeless on the bed. therefore
we listen especially carefully
to a soured beloved for
the inflection of ending:
that inflected ending (the slip
like a sheet of paper torn
lengthwise) added to a verb,
a susurrant（喃喃低语的） 2 punch.
once, a planet 3 and i
shared years in this tense
reality as if his couch were set
on a cliff edge: moonless
planet in the 4 starred
rim of the 5. we spoke
of ourselves, our common life
this way: never we are, we were --
but 6 out years
in a liminal mood. i started
to get used to it -- and to him --
and imagined an entire
existence like that, hunched（缩成一团的）
under afghans in dark night,
feet over the edge, 7.
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