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Nicole Higgins
Étude
I have good bones but turn
all tilt and fascinator, flat
every fifth. Bird
nesting in my hair. Somewhere
there’s a saying about this.
C sharp, he says, or you’ll B flat
and I laugh as if the joke
makes sense. As if a holiday,
I set my embouchure
for a meditation (Relax
he says) but I don’t
know the procedure for un-
stitching lips so still—. In this case
of emergency I break
glass to cut my teeth
and breathing in
taste copper, taste copper
3.1
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