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Leah Umansky
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It’s Like Everything You Love Broke at Once

after Jami Attenberg and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

                       
It’s nearly there, in this Time of _________________

Like the opening of what is sterile, or unescapable.

Everything is struggling to acquire, wrestle-down, secret and hurt

You, your story, your tale - the toil draws near its close - but know that

Love, love is still alive, living on the shore of it, suffering-broke, broke

Broke, but functioning, in makeshift, or re-cataloged into something new,

At once, visionary, novel, primitive – as all of our urges return to us, but

Once, one day, soon from now, we will remember the art of our solitude:

            the love of it.





Leah Umansky is the author of two full length collections, The Barbarous Century (2018), and Domestic Uncertainties (2013), among others. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is the curator and host of The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as The New York Times, POETRY, Bennington Review, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day, Glass, Rhino, and Pleiades. She is resisting the tyrant with her every move.More at www.leahumansky.com     




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