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Original poem reprinted online here:    "It's Here In The" by Russell Atkins Originally read: July 23, 2013 More information about the Poet: Russell Atkins This poem plays with expectation.  The title itself, written as a fragment, should bleed into the body.  But the phrase "Here in the" is repeated in he first line.  It's not the repetition that adds to the poem, rather what is missing -- "It's".  When discussing the title, "it" is important, the subject.  However, going into the poem, the discovery is more important."  A simple, but complex shift. The first line of the poem focuses on the discovery, "wreck on the East Bound"  and then the it "A photograph bound to bring on cardiac asthenia."  Note the play of the pun "bound" here.  Yes, this harkens to the construction of the poem, but also there's a sense of play with the repetition and the lnaguage. A lulling into thinking this poem will go ...