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Jeffrey Harrison

Jeffrey Harrison was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 10, 1957. He moved to New York to attend Columbia University where he studied with Kenneth Koch and David Shapiro. His work, in Harrison’s own

Custody of the Eyes

by Jeffrey Harrison (b. 1957)

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To look at the world

with devotion,

giving all of himself

to what was given,

sometimes gave him

so much pleasure

he thought it must be

a sin, distracting him

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