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The opening page frames the book as a direct address from a wounded speaker already anticipating the force that is coming for her.

It works like a raw title page and warning at once. The short lines turn the collection name into a condition, then shift immediately into dread and inevitability.

A handwritten title page where the book's name 'My Poor / HEART' is followed by four broken lines: 'Noon comes', 'I HAVE it BEFORE', 'Now it is coming for / ME'. The capitalized 'HAVE', 'BEFORE', and 'ME' make possession and dread feel shouted, and the unnamed 'it' that the speaker once held now reverses course to hunt her - a title page that doubles as a warning.