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Winter 1991 • Vol. XIII No. 1 • Poetry |

Fourth and Magnolia

Roused this afternoon by a phrase of oboe
moving from my neighbor’s window
across the courtyard into mine, I imagined
the light falling across the bed

was a comforter of orange and silver satin;
in a single breeze, I smelled honeysuckle,
mown grass, wild onions. Last winter I spent
hours painting trompe l’oeil shadows

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