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I'd like to see her perform these.
I love the cover of this book. That is my kind of photograph. (credit to Iveta Vaivoda and Valerie Brewster)
The poems finish strong, making me want to go back over them, which I often did. Here's one of my favorites:
A Portrait of a Mother in Fall
we tie a knot on everything that bends
and only our necks are free of knots
the sky like the soggy feathers of a bird
that's sleeping or most likely dead
and dinner comes
exchanges food
for our time
she used to bend over her t ...more
I love the cover of this book. That is my kind of photograph. (credit to Iveta Vaivoda and Valerie Brewster)
The poems finish strong, making me want to go back over them, which I often did. Here's one of my favorites:
A Portrait of a Mother in Fall
we tie a knot on everything that bends
and only our necks are free of knots
the sky like the soggy feathers of a bird
that's sleeping or most likely dead
and dinner comes
exchanges food
for our time
she used to bend over her t ...more
May 30, 2008
Amy
marked it as to-read
