For the record - Aug. 9, 2005

“Permutations” -- A poem by Amy Uyematsu in Sunday’s Book Review section appeared with a word erroneously added to the first line and missing the second to last stanza. Here is the poem in its entirety.

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Permutations

Amy Uyematsu

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stone in water

growing

still

water in stone

still

growing

in the I whose eye

in the eye what sky

in the sky where’s I

ow-ow-ow-ow-howl

ow-ow-ow-ow-owl

ow-ow-ow-ow-wow

ow-ow-ow-ow-bow

the nothingness of all

the whole in the hole

how perfect a fit

From “Stone Bow Prayer”

(Copper Canyon Press: 130 pp., $14 )