This poem is taken from PN Review 129, Volume 26 Number 1, September - October 1999.
The Circle
for Corneille
The bird the woman
the snake the cat
The red the blue
the yellow the yellow
the green -
The bird is a fish.
The snake is a bird.
The woman is not a cat.
And the cat can only
be itself.
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