Poem
I WANT TO TELL YOU HOW IT WAS
Dorothy Friedman
because this is the only chance I'm going to get--
It was an ordinary day except no one had taken out the garbage.
It had been snowing since noon and there were piles of snow
on the front lawn and on t...
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Poem
Shatter My Body but Let My Spirit Roam Free
Dorothy Friedman
Shatter My Body but Let My Spirit Roam Free
When all these lyrics have broken through the silences
I will be born into a more contemplative life--
to be what I have always been and more,
a thing unstuck from the womb o...
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Poem
As The Insurance Dwindles
Dorothy Friedman
As The Insurance Dwindles
In this house made of wood mother formulates ancestry cleans the fish
and makes the rooms habitable despite the incessant drilling.
As the insurance dwindles in each room an ornament rejoices...
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