Archival Footage, Subjects Unidentified

By Nancy Kuhl

This article appeared in the August 4, 2008 edition of The Nation.

July 16, 2008

Someone knew once
but we've forgotten
who and on what
street, which now-
emptied town.
Brittle-film bodies
waver or coalesce
into shuddering
tree rings, some
record of what we've
weathered. You call and
I pick up the phone,
I answer; you say
my name, say it's me.

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