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Spring 2000 • Vol. XXII No. 2 • Poetry |

Red Pond

How cool it lies. It only speaks
of having little feeling—or too much.
Drop by scarlet drop its rhetoric spreads

to the farthest shore; waters brim
against the roots and stalks. Who watches?
Who watches this ancient mirror loves
the wind’s effacement and the querulous silence,

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Carol Frost has published eleven books of poems, most recently Honeycomb, which won the 2010 Florida Book Award. Trilogy is forthcoming in 2014 from Tupelo Press. She is the Theodore Bruce and Barbara Lawrence Alfond Professor of English at Rollins College.

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