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The Rub

William Keckler
1 min readDec 15, 2019

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The dirt under my fingernails
inevitable in photographs

I tried to connect it to continental drift

The small dog barking in the distance
I never saw

(or rather)

The small dog I never saw
barking in the distance

(or rather)

The barking distance I felt
in the small dog of never

Nobody made me do the things
I did to nobody

I thought of the enviable life of a sonnet
and sickened

Jealousy is dirt we have on ourselves

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William Keckler
William Keckler

Written by William Keckler

Writer, visual artist. Books include Sanskrit of the Body, which won in the U.S. National Poetry Series (Penguin). https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/532348.

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