L E E    A N N   B R O W N
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TWO SELECTIONS

 

 

Early Autumn

 

Late summer dampness
    collects on the inside of
my new office door

This is our New Year—
    Us school-going folk never
Turned our calendar

I read Anne Truitt's
   TURN on the subway — makes all
Faces more vivid

Burl Ives croons for you:
    “Lavender Blue, Lavender's
Green” — Baby's first time

“I walk off a job first”
    (overheard) red shirt over shoulder
“I don't get fired”

Poets everywhere —
    The man at circulation
Offers to trade books

Ozu is playing
    everywhere this fall —
I'll be in the dark

 

 

n e x t

 

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