This poem is an attempt at simultaneity through strata, a layering of place-based associations. It’s part of a series that takes inspiration from Lorine Niedecker’s “Lake Superior” and Russell Atkins’s “Lakefront, Cleveland.”

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Caryl Pagel is the author of two books of poetry and an essay collection, Out of Nowhere Into Nothing (FC2, 2020). She’s the co-founder of Rescue Press, a poetry editor at jubilat, and director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.