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  • Exile
  • Jeff Dolven (bio)

For some years now I've lived in Exile:long enough to pass for nativeif there were any natives here,which there are not.

The sand in Exile falls like rain.It fills my glass,the kind of sand that stands for time,the kind of like that means instead.

Each of us says his evening prayersto the star above a different town.We couple, yes,but always it's with someone else

and long ago.I like you, though. I like you well,the kind of well you drink from oncewas cool and unforgettable. [End Page 181]

Jeff Dolven

Jeff Dolven teaches Renaissance literature at Princeton University. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, the TLS, and elsewhere.

Copyright © 2009 Johns Hopkins University Press
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