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With your raspy
gargle of a voice,
always definite
on politics or
news in this
country you say
you can say this.
Polished other
people's floors
in Brooklyn
made blood sausage
until midnight,
wanted the green
that would unroll
like hemlocks in
Banja Luka where
grandmothers shelled
snow peas on break­
ing porches. 50 years
of flesh on flesh
in subways, at 78
she moves up to a
small farm in vermont
where goats nuzzle
snow gloves and
blue iris poke
thru last year 's
leaves. I'll dance
on the melting earth
like a gypsy watch
the moon she says
tum rose in the
room of apples, fur
and advent candles
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