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The Constraint to the Cross
- Colorado Review
- Center for Literary Publishing
- Volume 43, Number 2, Summer 2016
- pp. 133-139
- 10.1353/col.2016.0050
- Article
- Additional Information
The poem concerns distraction as a condition of subjectivity, laterally and temporally: what is easily stretched is not so easily known. The poem's attention is thus fleeting but terminal, since it cannot turn around and start over.