FetchAuthor(s): Jeffrey SkinnerSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), p. 84Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20154683 .

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Jeffrey Skinner

Fetch

Go, bring back the worthless stick.

"Of memory y "

I almost added.

But she wouldn't understand, naturally. There is the word and the thing

adhering. So far so good.

Metaphor, drawer of drafting tools?

spill it on the study floor, animal says,

that we might at least see

how an expensive ruler tastes.

Yesterday I pissed and barked and ate

because that's what waking means.

Thus has God solved time

for me?here, here. What you call

memory is a long and sweet,

delicious crack of wood in my teeth

I bring back and bring back and bring back.

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