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Winter 1993 • Vol. XV No. 1 • Poetry |

Countryside

My darling works until she finishes I resist starting–
  craning out the upper window over the tiled roofs
we each imagine the moon sets in night mist
  she says she sees it I pretend I don’t

over our heads someone who makes a lot of money
  does something arty the public likes like pouring color
over red cherries–
  not delicious wrong language

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