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Lytton Smith is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY Geneseo. He is the author of three poetry collections: My Radar Data Knows Its Thing (Foundlings Press), While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed By It (Nightboat Books), and The All-Purpose Magical Tent (Nightboat Books).
America, she is not
America—
is nearby, is
nearly in sight
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