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THE WOODEN OVERCOAT

It turns out there’s a difference between a detail

and an image. If a dandelion on the sidewalk is

mere detail, the dandelion inked on a friend’s bicep

is an image because it moves when her body does,

even when a shirt covers up the little black sun

on a thin stalk. The same way that the barcode

on the back of another friend’s neck is just a detail,

until you hear that the row of numbers underneath

are the numbers his grandfather got on his arm

in a camp in Poland. Then it’s an image, something