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Corey Mesler

Corey Mesler has published poetry and prose in many journals and has written several chapbooks and a novel. His latest novel Talk was published by Livingston Press in 2002. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee where he and his wife own and operate Burke's Book.

I am Negative, Develop Me

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Unfixed and blurred, put me in the bath until I see clearly, until I am the picture of health. I am yours as much as the light, the shadow, the reason we try to preserve any- thing here in the ang- ular field, the art- ificial daylight. Don’t stop, f me, fix me in place.