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Poems by Erin Noteboom

 

the potato, like us

opens its eyes
in darkness
 
it has nothing but its own desire
and the earth's rough umbilical
 
it fumbles
it spreads its fingers
 
eventually there will be white flowers
and after that a spade
a turning

 

Prophecy

A man has a dream he will die
away from home. Well-read, he knows better
than to bolt the doors.
 
But every morning
his wife waits for the engine
to turn without explosion.
 
Sometimes
in the watered light she stops
and listens.

 

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