Dara Wier
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How many seasons are there?
Where was God born?
How many stars?
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The pressure of the moment can cause someone to kill someone or something
The leniency of consideration might treat with more kindness
Which is to be desired. Or at least often to be desired.
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Do you know what's the unluckiest thing
In the world, a differential grasshopper
Said to me. I paused, I put down the
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(it's scaffolding) (it's supposed to be temporary)
(the domino effect) (had been forgotten about)
(it was in storage) (nobody knew where)
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Falling off a triangle.
Putting two fighting fish in one bowl.
Talking yourself into a headcold.
Falling off a rectangle.
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No one felt in the dark for his hat.
No one budged an inch.
Thus the story draws to its end.
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The batture's water and sand disappear
when water swells the river,
heat's portion of a northern winter.
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So says my friend who doesn't know it now
But he's been conscripted to say what I shouldn't
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A wolf had grown tired of his character and sought
to find a means to transform himself into something
more vicious, more deadly. While his coat was slick,
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Except when once we drew identical lots
nothing's ever come between us.
We keep our drifts of space
spare and daily shake our down.
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Dara Wier Biography
Dara Wier (born 1949) is an American poet and recipient of such honors as The Guggengheim Foundation award, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council artist's fellowship; and the American Poetry Review's, Jerome J. Shestack Prize. Wier is a poet and founding editor of Factory Hollow Press.[1] With Emily Pettit and Guy Pettit she publishes and edits for FHP which is located in Flying Object (founded in 2009 by Guy Pettit),a community arts center located in Hadley, Massachusetts of which she is a member. Wier was born in Hotel Dieux, New Orleans, Louisiana, raised in Belle Chasse and Naomi, Louisiana, attended Catholic grade schools in New Orleans and Gretna, Louisiana, and high school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, attended Louisiana State University and Longwood University. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Bowling Green University, 1974. She's lived in Louisiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ohio, Texas, Alabama, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, and Massachusetts, and spent time in San Miguel de Allenda, Mexico, and Mississippi. She writes poetry, prose and a column, INSIDE UNDIVIDED, on chance, fate and context for Flying Object's website. She's taught poetry workshops and seminars at Bowling Green University, University of Pittsburgh, Hollins University, Emory University, University of Montana, University of Massachusetts Amherst and for summer or winter workshops in Aspen, Key West, Santa Fe, Virginia, Bennington, and the University of Massachusetts Juniper Workshops (which she co-founded in 2003 as a part of the Juniper Initiative which she co-directs). Wier is married to poet James Tate.)
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Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog
How many seasons are there?
Where was God born?
How many stars?
Who discovered every single one of the Americas and all of the other places?
Do some dwarves live in caves?
Is your mother singing in church tonight?
Is your father setting his hat on his head?
Do those goldfish belong to you?
Why did their God rise from the dead?
Could it be because of a forgotten pencil?
Do you like to study history?
Is this your book?
Where does cotton grow?
Why did the Holy Family go to Egypt. What is the Holy Family?
Do you see frightened ghosts on the streets sometimes?
I see the dog in your eye.
How would you like this to end?
Gone was a dog off to where a dog wants to go.
Who needed some help from old friends?
Do you see the question mark at the end of this sentence?
Somewhat maligned Pandora remains a curious person.
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