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Konstantinos Patrinos

Self Portrait With a Magician

53, New Poetry by Konstantinos Patrinos

            I was the first to discover      the water
in his lungs                 Stale light ensnared 
           
in his whited-out      open eyes      A fish 
still pooling in his top hat      I flung it back 

into the lake            What do fishes know 
            about the …

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