Simultaneously
I am and you are, as larks going, at the same time, away and up, unthought of separately, a blurred black-thing against blue, though we are different, and two. And soon we’ll be lost to a chasm. While moving is an immense gesture, it almost means we can, as astonishingly as things change, be the same. You will understand,
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As your plane lands here, didn’t the lady once say in the event of aloneness please hold on? Why have you gone? Here is a question I’ve tried: why at the same time as speaking are we moving away? Though the theory of action explains it well, the function of experience must be experimental. And, too, I knew assuredly that
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“Simultaneously” from SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE OF FEELING: by Kimberly Grey.
Published by Persea Books December 8th 2020.
Copyright © 2020 by Kimberly Grey.
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Kimberly Grey is the author of three books: A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing: Hybrid Essays, forthcoming from Persea Books in 2023, Systems for the Future of Feeling (2020), and The Opposite of Light (2016), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. Her work has appeared widely in journals such as New England Review, Kenyon Review, Tin House, A Public Space, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and teaching lectureship from Stanford University, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, and Taft and Dissertation Fellowships from the University of Cincinnati, where she earned a PhD in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing. She currently teaches at Webster University and lives in Saint Louis.
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