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The Journal, Issue 31.1

Poetry: "Heathcliff"

by Toni Mirosevich

Ghost echoes
from Oblique Strategies, by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt

Out here, on the white cliffs, with my collar turned up,
then turned down. There’s a tree. Then no tree. A golden
hillside a minute ago. Now, a white wall. Mirage or oasis?
Panorama or a bad bit of beef? The car lights only go so far,
our vision even less. Forget permanence: the fog giveth
and the fog taketh away. Rail against the dying of the light,
just don’t fuck it up for everyone. Was that how it went?
There’s a fig tree. Now it’s gone. A child in the street.
Gone too. We all want lessons in detachment. We think
that will make us care less. Let me make it easy for you:
I’m coming over. Or I’m not.

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