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Couplets

Maggie Millner

April 19, 2022

I became myself. I became myself.

No, I always was myself. There’s no such person as myself.

I wouldn’t have to turn my eye inward, I thought, if I could train my eye

on him—the one I loved. But I was wrong. My eye loved

everything it fell upon. And then one day it fell upon

a mirror. And he was nowhere in the mirror. And she was everywhere.

Maggie MillnerMaggie Millner is the author of Couplets, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2023.


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