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  • Beyond the Vanishing Point
  • Brianna Noll (bio)

In a single-linedrawing, there isno beginning, andan end onlywhere your owneye stops tracingthe path of theartist's hand.The wind can dothis, too—teartunnels throughforest canopies, orrake patterns intosand. What we don'trealize is the prevalenceof line. Think ofthe gaze of a womanhanging clothes—distracted by somenoise, she looks outbeyond the dampsheets, throughobstructions, her ownhyperopia. Workthrough the eyes'deficit. How far aheaddoes the wren lookwhen it flies?How far the hawk?We web the worldwith line. [End Page 56]

Brianna Noll

Brianna Noll is a postdoctoral fellow in teaching and mentoring in the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of The Price of Scarlet: Poems (2017).

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