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Peter Gizzi is the author of Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart, and Periplum and Other Poems 1987–1992. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Deep in the enzyme is the shape of home.
Deep in the code is the architecture to nest.
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