Apr 08 2010
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April 8, 2010: *turning, Annie Guthrie
*turning
Annie Guthrie
I can’t sleep. I feel the globe
making a rotation,
and I’m not supposed to be, but I’m awake for it.
I’m at that age when everyone is talking about the kinds of love
they’ve been using to get by.
It’s a very dark late.
The sound of a towel dropping off the rack
into the bath
carries my name with it.
I get up to turn on the dryer
to block out all possibilities of ever
hearing anything else so
fall.
On this day in…
2009: I Don’t Fear Death, Sandra Beasley
2008: The Dover Bitch, Anthony Hecht
2007: Death Comes To Me Again, A Girl, Dorianne Laux
2006: Up Jumped Spring, Al Young
2005: Old Women in Eliot Poems, David Wright
