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Of My Body

By Yaccaira Salvatierra
This is a spare visual poem. Text appears in black and gray, with two corners of a box or border connecting the text.

Source: Poetry (July/August 2022)
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White letters P O E T R Y in boxes are arranged in a grid format. Each box contains an illustration. Top boxes depict a natural landscape with a city in the distance. Middle boxes depict a cross section of land from its topsoil to layers of dirt below. Bo
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