It was a town so quiet, the mailman was empty-handed.
Why then nostrils of bloom, breathing so pinkly?
Even the town crier had taken a vow of silence.
Why at the house’s edge, beneath a wide-eyed window?
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Cate Marvin has published four books of poems, most recently Event Horizon (Copper Canyon Press, 2022). She teaches at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and lives in Southern Maine.
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