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This poem is taken from PN Review 276, Volume 50 Number 4, March - April 2024.

Two Poems Jamie McKendrick
Drypoint

As the burin cuts into the copper plate
it leaves a burr behind – a jagged edge
which gathers the pitch black on its ridge
making micro-lesions on the dampened sheet.
The other end of the burin something curious
occurs – a metamorphosis: it turns into
a convex spatula to planish and erase
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