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“Imagin-a-nation in the heart of” as the heart surrounded by all this flesh feels its weight (the pressure of pumping blood through such a system) throws up its hands in surrender the heart is never isolate never away (women cannot get away) as the people who inhabit this emptiness will tell you heartland laid waste (desert is not waste) dug up for uranium irradiated in nuclear testing (the fragile ecosystem the heart is) will fence off sacred sites to keep out the acquisitive heart is consumed the heart is not allowed to throb for pleasure in what surrounds (imagine a nation at home in the “deathless body”) the heart must be used (up) (imagine a nation uncommitted to surplus profit) working for love not pay imagination is at home with emptiness imagination a-muses herself with the emptiness of words and boards the train of the sentence empty-handed and makes off with it de-riding the end point of the Final Product (she is not for termination after all) she is well on her way to de-railing the “long straight” which can only see its own track while she is out on either side (surrounded she knows does not mean surrender) she is also she is desert come in waves the waves she rides she rises up and overflows the words a round around the word surround The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt / 27 ...

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