Nonsense, you say. But don't say uncle.
In cooking, it's olive oil heating up and ready for what comes next. Olive oil is never unwanted.
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small poems & small plates
The one I haven’t read or was unable to hear.
Others: Anita Brookner, A.S. Byatt, Anne Carson, Chiyo-ni, Diane diPrima, e.e. cummings, Penelope Fitzgerald, Susan Gangel, Linda Gregg, Susan Griffin, Brenda Hillman, Carol Maso, Heather McHugh, Anne Michaels, Adrienne Rich, Rebecca Solnit, Jeanette Winterson, C.D. Wright, psalms of David (plainchant), and the Great American Songbook.
Person enters stage left,
ReplyDeleteembraces our hero and they exit.
A trail of white petals
flutters from the fruit tree.
Up above, she sees her new hope,
a face in the window,
a wave goodbye.