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In the

Pleasure Diary

Helen Charman

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September Twilight

Louise Glück

I gathered you together,

I can dispense with you—

I’m tired of you, chaos

of the living world—

I can only extend myself

for so long to a living thing.

I summoned you into existence

by opening my mouth, by lifting

my little finger, shimmering

blues of the wild

aster, blossom

of the lily, immense,

gold-veined—

you come and go; eventually

I forget your names.

You come and go, every one of you

flawed in some way,

in some way compromised: you are worth

one life, no more than that.

I gathered you together;

I can erase you

as though you were a draft to be thrown away,

an exercise

because I’ve finished you, vision

of deepest mourning.

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Erosion Jorie Graham

annotations not mine

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Kathleen Ossip

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Publishers Weekly Poetry — Q&A with Jorie Graham

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Marie Lundquist

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Marie Lundquist

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In your dreams you have murdered and your dreams do not lie

Mary Oliver

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Byron

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Louise Glück

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Kathleen Ossip

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Kathleen Ossip

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Bernadette Mayer midwinter day