The Morning Reading: "All the fine bones of that eaten-up story"

In the February 8, 2010 issue of the New Yorker, a Jane Hirschfield poem titled "If Truth Is the Lure, Humans Are Fishes."

Here are the last lines:

If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

All the fine bones of that eaten-up story,

think about them.

Their salt-cod whiteness on whiteness.

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