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Camila Valle

"St. Mark's Church" is written at the top of a postcard in big dark blue hollow letters. A poem is written under it in black ink, all lowercase. It reads: a poet's son speaks of the work of love I sit under the virgin reading an angel kneeling by her side a dove above so below am I the only one who would call my mother a poet I write my own annunciation An outline of a dove in flight is drawn in light blue ink on the left-hand side of the postcard, nestled between the title and the start of the poem. A green and light blue drawing of flowers sits on the right-hand side, toward the bottom of the postcard.
The title of the poem, "for Elio Schneeman," is handwritten in light blue ink at the top of the postcard. Under it, the poem in orange and black ink, centered on the postcard, forming a column: PAMELA late-night BREATHING READING Pamela an ad on craigslist: FREE DESK, BELONGED TO FAMOUS POET a discussion on how famous if famous you can get to him following the names paths & paths & paths songs of heroin love & pools of blue look at this other life this FOUND LIFE you are walking down The poem is surrounded by a collage of birds in flight, a butterfly, a flower, and blue and grey rounded shapes.

Work from Obtuse Angles, Tentative Skies, Awkward Chops with Edmund Berrigan

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