"I didn’t fall in love. I fell through it: Came out the other side moments later, hands full of..."

“I didn’t fall in love. I fell through it:

   

Came out the other side moments later, hands full of matter, waking up from the dream of a bullet tearing through the middle of my body.”

- Sarah Manguso, from “Love Letter (Clouds),” Siste Viator (Four Way Books, 2006).
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