These are the painful errors reflected from my face,
As if I had been in a knife fight instead
Of going to prom, and bled in the swimming pool
Where my luxurious sisters had planned to swim,
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just came across your poems today...very nice...strange, but effective...remind me of James Tate...plan on reading more...peace & poetics...William
Love your use of adjectives in this poem: celibate shadows and fallow classrooms...too many great contrasting images to mention.