Donald Hall Poems

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11.
Je Suis Une Table

It has happened suddenly,
by surprise, in an arbor,
or while drinking good coffee,
after speaking, or before,
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12.
The Alligator Bride

The clock of my days winds down.
The cat eats sparrows outside my window.
Once, she brought me a small rabbit
which we devoured together, under
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13.
Safe Sex

If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident
they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words;

if she has grown insensible skin under skin; if they desire
only the tribute of another's cry; if they employ each other
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14.
Ox Cart Man

In October of the year,
he counts potatoes dug from the brown field,
counting the seed, counting
the cellar's portion out,
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15.
Tubes

Up, down, good, bad,' said
the man with the tubes
up his nose, ' there's lots
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16.
Gold

Pale gold of the walls, gold
of the centers of daisies, yellow roses
pressing from a clear bowl. All day
we lay on the bed, my hand
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17.
The Things

When I walk in my house I see pictures,
bought long ago, framed and hanging
—de Kooning, Arp, Laurencin, Henry Moore—
that I've cherished and stared at for years,
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18.
The Painted Bed

'Even when I danced erect
by the Nile’s garden
I constructed Necropolis.
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19.
Closings

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"Always Be Closing," Liam told us—
abc of real estate, used cars,
and poetry. Liam the dandy
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20.
Olives

"Dead people don't like olives,"
I told my partners in eighth grade
dancing class, who never listened
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