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In The Deep Museum

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My God, my God, what queer corner am I in? Didn’t I die, blood running down the post, lungs gagging for air, die there for the sin of anyone, my…

In Excelsis

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It is half winter, half spring, and Barbara and I are standing confronting the ocean. Its mouth is open very wide, and it has dug up its green, throwing it,…

In Celebration Of My Uterus

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Everyone in me is a bird. I am beating all my wings. They wanted to cut you out but they will not. They said you were immeasurably empty but you…

I Remember

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By the first of August the invisible beetles began to snore and the grass was as tough as hemp and was no color–no more than the sand was a color…

Hutch

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of her arms, this was her sin: where the wood berries bin of forest was new and full, she crept out by its tall posts, those wooden legs, and heard…

Hurry Up Please It’s Time

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What is death, I ask. What is life, you ask. I give them both my buttocks, my two wheels rolling off toward Nirvana. They are neat as a wallet, opening…

Housewife

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Some women marry houses. It’s another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements. The walls are permanent and pink. See how she sits…

Hornet

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A red-hot needle hangs out of him, he steers by it as if it were a rudder, he would get in the house any way he could and then he…

Going Gone

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Over stone walls and barns, miles from the black-eyed Susans, over circus tents and moon rockets you are going, going. You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most…

Gods

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Ms. Sexton went out looking for the gods. She began looking in the sky —expecting a large white angel with a blue crotch. No one. She looked next in all…