Rachel Zucker
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I skim sadness like fat off the surface
of cooling soup. Don't care about
metaphor but wish it would arrive
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At home, the bells were a high light-yellow
with no silver or gray just buttercup or sugar-and-lemon.
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When we made love you had
the dense body of a Doberman
and the square head of a Rottweiler.
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The other day Matt Rohrer said,
the next time you feel yourself going dark
in a poem, just don't, and see what happens.
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how the s changes passersby
inside like a fetus makes mother what was
woman
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Spring is not so very promising as it is the thing
that looking back was fire, promising:
ignition, aspiration; it was not under my thumb.
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and I'd like to get naked and into bed and be hot radiating heat from the inside these sweaters and fleeceys do nothing to keep out the out or keep my vitals in—some drafty body I've got leaking in and out in all directions I'd
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Rachel Zucker Biography
Rachel Zucker is an American poet born in New York City in 1971. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently, Museum of Accidents (Wave Books 2009). She also co-edited the book Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections with fellow poet, Arielle Greenberg. Her honors include having a poem included in the 2009 Best American Poetry edition, and winning the Salt Hill Poetry Award (1999, judged by C.D. Wright) and the Barrow Street Poetry Prize (2000). In 2002 she won the Center for Book Arts Award (judged by Lynn Emanuel) for her long poem, "Annunciation". She is a graduate of Yale University, where she received her B.A. in Psychology. Zucker later went on to the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she received her M.F.A. in poetry. Currently, she lives in New York City with her husband and three sons.)
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I skim sadness like fat off the surface
of cooling soup. Don't care about
metaphor but wish it would arrive
me. There's a cool current of air
this hot day I want to ride.
I have no lover, not even my love.
I have no other, not even I.
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