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November 2, 2026

Agriculture

Arts & Humanities

Form and Function

The New Yorker

I tried, but I was too small to lift you
Up and out of that bathtub—

Your two arms cut open, your two legs—

You were January, bamboo shooting through darkness
In that village, monsoonal and rude, that you stopped imagining
Coming home to altogether—

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