"Suppose we could iridesce,

like these, and lose ourselves
entirely in the universe
of shimmer -- would you want

to be yourself only,
unduplicatable, doomed
to be lost?"

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A Display of Mackerel by Mark Doty from Atlantis: Poems (1995, HarperPerennial) https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/display-mackerel