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THE MIDDLE SEAT
- The Yale Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 105, Number 2, April 2017
- p. 61
- 10.1353/tyr.2017.0124
- Article
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6 1 R T H E M I D D L E S E A T E L I S E P A S C H E N What space can we attempt to claim bracketed here inside a plane. The seat-back drops: a paradox. You’re packed inside a folding box. Each book-end stakes out territory. Is this her arm-rest; whose fresh story? Embrace your own invisible. In fiction find a miracle. Invent a life from something lost. A ticket to another coast. We land where we’ve lived before. The heart darts through the open door. ...