Hymn
BY
CARL PHILLIPS Less the shadow
than you a stag, sudden, through it.
Less the stag breaking cover than
the antlers, with which
crowned.
Less the antlers as trees leafless,
to either side of the stag’s head, than-
between them-the vision that must
mean, surely, rescue.
Less the rescue.
More, always, the ache
toward it.
When I think of death, the
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