poetry
Bruce Dethlefsen, a retired educator and public library director living in Westfield, began his two-year term as Wisconsin Poet Laureate at the beginning of 2011.
Cold floor colder than my sweat, his voice a Tennessee hush at my ear, hand soft on my back as if to say he will not hurt me if he doesn't have to so I know I got to do
No makeup or mirrors, nothing that reflects,no TV screens, no tinted glass, no tin.No clinging clothes or cameras,no photos or frames,no possibility of any shape, trapped.No trappings of any kind,
At seventy, the final thing she wantedto learn was to dive:
to tuck her chin to her chest, betweenher outstretched arms and to fall
headfirst toward the bottom she had bothfeared and yearned for since she had
White clapboard worn to silver sitsstraddling the crest of a dark wave of soil, sailing a froth of sand atop the dark, implacable earth.Below us in the trough, hidden now by the spray
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