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One Night We Will No Longer Bear the Ocean tells the story of a life-changing encounter between two people. It begins in a fragile place. Entering the relationship, both are haunted by past trauma and anxieties. Their multifaceted connection and mutual fascination allow the darkness to be set aside, but only for a while. The relationship becomes tense. A sense of betrayal develops. The speaker loses the ability to see the significant other as a partner. Coexisting is no longer possible. This rupture comes at a high price. Profound regret sets in, and depression follows. The speaker and the former partner are stuck, never come to terms, contemplate mortality, almost dissociating from reality for a while. Recovery is slow. The speaker's memory of the beloved lingers as a ghostly presence. The mourning process does come to a semblance of closure, and at last it becomes possible to look to the future once more. And this future does involve the two of them reconnecting in a new capacity. While they are no longer together, their stories once again intertwine to a degree, and the ability to integrate their shared history into their conscious awareness is what enables them to remain human.

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Anton Yakovlev is the author of four poetry chapbooks: Chronos Dines Alone (SurVision Books, 2018), winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize, Ordinary Impalers (Kelsay Books, 2017), The Ghost of Grant Wood (Finishing Line Press, 2015), and Neptune Court (The Operating System, 2015). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Hopkins Review, Plume, Reed Magazine, upstreet, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. The bilingual volume The Last Poet of the Village: Selected Poems by Sergei Yesenin Translated by Anton Yakovlev came out from Sensitive Skin Books in 2019. Anton co-hosts the Carmine Street Metrics reading series in Manhattan and the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow reading series in Rutherford, New Jersey. He is a former education director at Bowery Poetry Club.

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