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I wanted to rescue the moon
from our hopes. I wanted
to rescue our hopes from hell.
I wanted to rescue hell
from existence. I wanted
to rescue existence
from itself.
James Henry Knippen’s poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, 32 Poems, Colorado Review, The Missouri Review Online, Denver Quarterly, Blackbird and West Branch, among other journals. He is the poetry editor of Newfound.
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