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Featured Poet: Kathryn Rantala
At The Garage Sale
At the garage sale, rain and a man from Padua. “Poets look at the entire world and compress it beautifully for us,” he says.
We’d never seen so much rain.
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Later, two Canadian Geese honk overhead and Wayne stands up and honks back at them. They turn and circle back to get a better look at him. He does this again, later on, with another pair.
Wayne and the birds of the air.
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The second day of the garage sale, early, an osprey flies over holding a bullhead in its talons.
The rest of the day we watch our tables.
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During a lull the man with the cashbox is seen rocking and rocking on the edge of his chair; as if on the water, as if in the wind.
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On a table, an array of Berlitz:
aardappelsoep: potato soup
Machen Sie bitte die Rechnung fertig:
Please have my bill ready.
Kan jeg fa et bord ved unduet: Could I have
a table by the window?
uitsmijter: a ham sandwich with a fried egg
on top
A fellow asked: Have any books on human consciousness?
We look up for a bird.
Closing the Blinds
rain had come
between evensong
and the song of Bernadette
a bedroom urn
doubled by the glass
looked back from the roof
wet and
righteous as a lord
Certain Sun
melt dents the
ragged rug
wove ruin,
noosed night
He
rubs the stairway white,
sure there is an end to it.
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