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Sophie Cabot Black

Poetry

Summer 1991

Next

By Sophie Cabot Black

They still astound me, these places to go. The relentless hammer of the heart becomes a song Of unsafety. I’m afraid of the next station, Of afterlife. Of landing, unsure […]

Poetry

Summer 1991

Tonight

By Sophie Cabot Black

Now that I’ve gone through the good reasons To be elsewhere the pacts are harder to come by; Each night the empty lots enlarge, trouble Shifts, and I try to […]