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air, light
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in the eye, spectral sight…
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as if the worship of a thing might be the thing that breaks it.
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Patricia Lockwood’s poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Tin House, and Poetry. She is the author of six books, including a memoir, Priestdaddy (Riverhead Books, 2017), and the poetry collection Agate Head/Stone Soup (Penguin Random House, 2026). She lives in Savannah, Georgia.
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