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This poem is taken from PN Review 210, Volume 39 Number 4, March - April 2013.

Two Poems Laura Coyne
A Mystic and a Stock Price

A mystic and a stock price
Meet on a bubble of
Contested brightness

Blowing, blown, popped
Or cool-lipped speech
Impounding the future

In unity's tight spike and
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