Diane Gage
Diane Gage Poems
1. | Dad | 7/17/2006 |
2. | Cutting Room Floor | 7/17/2006 |
3. | Moving To The Motor City, '62 | 7/17/2006 |
4. | Reading Anne Sexton | 7/17/2006 |
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Reading Anne Sexton
Amid the dull whine of leafblowers
by which this block sets its ordinary clock
a drama occurs. My neighbor Leon
is felled by a stroke. His Avon lady
wife Marcy dresses up to walk up
the hill to the hospital. Meanwhile,
I sit here in the insulation called
not-my-turn and contemplate
Anne’s similes and metaphors: Snow
White’s “cheeks as fragile as cigarette
paper, ” dwarves “little hot dogs.”
I take Marcy some zucchini soup,
a rising to another’s emergency
against the day that I’m the emergency,
the one straining at the tearing ...
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