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name the fear-spangled thing

I go in search of the body,
her buzzed head,
but the glittering grid of her
topography, blinks so unlike mine,
            daunting. telepathic
that I am, of course you
would think me capable
of discerning myself
at any juncture, but how
warped the mirror. I desire,
am of desirous nature,
but when imaged
                        a rush
especially in winter
when the trees of Second Ave.,
which I have no name for,
are gussied to some ideal
            & the figure of me
strains to be righted
& simultaneous
& independent
            of her landscape
Picture
Xiaofu Wang. Magic Mirror, 2018. Acrylic and colored pencil on found note, 11x8.5 inches.

TR Brady is a Teaching/Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Prelude, The Journal, Passages North, and The Arkansas International.
Xiaofu Wang, born in Wuhan, China, works and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from China Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing (2013) and earned her MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art in the LeRoy E Hoffberger School of Painting (2017). Xiaofu is currently a 2018-19 fellow for the fully-funded fellowship Shandaken Paint School in New York City. She has shown her work in New York, Baltimore, Colorado, and Beijing. In 2018, Xiaofu’s work was featured in ArtMaze Magazine and Magazine Parcours. She was awarded residencies at Elsewhere Studio Residency and Art Farm Nebraska. 
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