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By David Barber

Here is where
You can get nowhere
Faster than ever
As you go under
Deeper and deeper


In the fertile smother
Of another acre
Like any other
You can’t peer over
And then another


And everywhere
You veer or hare
There you are
Farther and farther
Afield than before


But on you blunder
In the verdant meander
As if   the answer
To looking for cover
Were to bewilder


Your inner minotaur
And near and far were
Neither here nor there
And where you are
Is where you were


Source: Poetry (March 2013)

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David Barber
David Barber is poetry editor of The Atlantic, where he has been a staff editor since 1994. Barber has taught writing and literature at Middlebury College, the Harvard Writing Program, MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, and the Emerson College graduate writing program. He also writes on natural history, music, and art.     See More By This Poet

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