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  • Digestion:A Journal
  • Bruce Robinson (bio)

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For days, four days,    forelegs of ajourney, we went hungry!    That landwas poor with pigs    that could notchew things through.

And yet we took notes:

"Of its kind this cow is kine."

    "I wish we could havea stomach like a heart."

    In the valleys, two-legged fowlstook wing. Few flew.    In ponds, in lakesscaly fish swam.    Yes, before our eyes. They usedfins. So would you.

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    Then west to the plainsand the days grew longer.    Led by our legs wefollowed the sun, and    what's the sun seeking,is there any more land    beyond this land? [End Page 116]

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    We leave our tents behindthey refract into pyramids,    it's not difficult.

Three days out of town    the route beginsto ruminate. Suddenly    within us it's clear

as bones or as appetite   (as at that momentwhen peace hooks up with us,    like a distant light almost

a storm from a dismal firmament)    that we mustfight for what we want    or do without,

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stomach like a heart    tonight we'll feast on what we feelwithout embellishment    and then consider, then hold fast. [End Page 117]

Bruce Robinson

Bruce Robinson has discussed alimentation in Pagnol and Kechiche at a Northeast Modern Languages Association conference. Recent work also appears in Prism Review.

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