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National Book Foundation > News > Excerpt from Jean Valentine’s Door in the Mountain
February 2016
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I saw my soul become flesh breaking open/ the linseed oil breaking over the paper/ running down pouring/ no one to catch it my life breaking open/ no one to contain it my/ pelvis thinning out into God/