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

The Choice

What does it matter,
the puddle of urine
beneath the toilet
he says he didn’t make
but just discovered

and is why he called you in?
“What’s this?” he asks.
“How did it get there?”
you demand. And though
there’s something in his voice

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Michael Collier’s sixth book, An Individual History, will be published by W.W. Norton, spring 2012. In 2009, he received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Maryland and is director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

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