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Rae Armantrout – With
It’s well
that things should stir
inconsequentially
around me
like this
patina of shadow,
flicker, whisper,
so that
I can be still.
*
I write things down
to show others
later
or to show myself
that I am...
Feud
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Rae Armantrout – And
1
Tense and tenuous
grow from the same root
as does tender
in its several guises:
the sour grass flower;
the yellow moth.
2
I would not confuse
the bogus
with the spurious.
The bogus
is a sore thumb
while...
Rae Armantrout: Writing poems is, for me, a way of asking questions
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