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Neptunian Precambric Rebecca Lilly (bio) It doesn't take much for me to slip out ofmyself, like a fish, to shapeshift into astralexcrescences, a Neptunian Precambrianimaginal. A hint of the tragic and I'm out.In diffuse light, in seaweed crumbling onrock, I gulp water and salt as my fins flopwhile my poorly-de-signed gills workhard to extract minute amounts of oxygen.I've never transcended myself in mypoems, but live in false oblivion. You'llhave to swim out, as I did, to find a poemof your own, holding your breath, divingfrom your lifeboat. If you're mindfulenough, the joy is immediate and close. [End Page 61] Rebecca Lilly Rebecca Lilly has earned degrees from Cornell (MFA) and Princeton (PhD) Universities and works as a writer and photographer. Among her several collections of poems, her most recent is Creatures Among Us (Broadstone, 2019). An earlier collection, You Want to Sell Me a Small Antique (Gibbs Smith), won the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, and several books of her short poetry and haiku appear from Red Moon Press. Her website is RebeccaLilly.studio. Copyright © 2022 Berea College
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