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Intruder
by Cass Garison


​I drop a lure through the surface
of a lake, shatter the stillness. It breaks
 
the way a bullet unclasps the smooth
skin of a temple. The stem
 
of a flower cracking
in the wind. I see my death
 
everywhere—in every act of nature. Notice
the way a buck sharpens his antlers
 
against the bark of an evergreen, rubs
them until they are dull. Or,
 
how lightning can open the torso
of a tree in under a second. Ironic:
 
how Freud thought electricity
could fix something like this. I reel
 
the lure back up. It does not
unshatter the lake.
 
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 Cass Garison has work published or forthcoming in River Styx, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art Online, Washington Square Review, Salamander, Nimrod International, and others and is currently a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal. 


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Self-Portrait with Mirror and History Book by Cassie Garison
Summer 2019
ISSN 2157-8079
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