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I want to write you a love poem as headlong as our creek after thaw when we stand
For Jews, the Cossacks are always… Therefore I think the sun spot on… is melanoma. Therefore I celebrat… New Year’s Eve by counting my annual dead.
I am only leaving you for a handful of days but it feels as thought i will be gone forever the way the door closes
I sing a song of the croissant and of the wily French who trick themselves daily back to the world
My husband gives me an A for last night’s supper, an incomplete for my ironing, a B plus in bed. My son says I am average,
The door of winter is frozen shut, and like the bodies of long extinct animals, cars lie abandoned wherever
When I taught you at eight to ride a bicycle, loping along beside you as you wobbled away
Perhaps the purpose of leaves is t… the verticality of trees which we… as if for the first time: row afte… yearning upwards. And since we wil… ourselves for so long, let us now…
We invent our gods the way the Greeks did, in our own image’but magnified. Athena, the very mother of wisdom, squabbled with Poseidon
Into the gravity of my life, the serious ceremonies of polish and paper and pen, has come this manic animal
I remember what my father told me: There is an age when you are most… He was just past fifty then, Was it something about the trees t… There is an age when you are most…
Finding a new poet is like finding a new wildflower out in the woods. You don’t see its name in the flower books, and nobody you tell believes
We think of hidden in a white dres… among the folded linens and sachet… of well-kept cupboards, or just ou… sending jellies and notes with no… to all the wondering Amherst neigh…
I have banked the fires of my body into a small but steady blaze here in the kitchen where the dough has a life of its…
When they taught me that what matt… was not the strict iambic line goo… over the page but the variations in that line and the tension produ… on the ear by the surprise of diff…