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<B>Caroline Knox</B>’s collection <U>A Beaker:  New and Selected Poems</U> was recently released by Verse Press. Her work has appeared in <I>The American Scholar, The American Voice, Massachusetts Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry</I> and elsewhere. Her work has been anthologized in <I>The Best American Poetry 1988</I> and <I>1994</I>.


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<h1>Easter</h1>


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font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>Jelly Bird Egg, the presence

of a soup of beans<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>sends the consumer, can and

all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Ice cream<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>resists chews by that very consumer

by aggregate of sugar pustules.<o:p></o:p></span></p>


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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>Jelly Bird Egg, made by

Psychotherapy Chicken,<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>full of willingness to doubt

self, others, and be pleased,<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>here at the Snazzatorium, to

apprehend<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>just such a Jelly Bird Egg

as God rolled from her or his mind for you.<br>

<br>

<br>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>


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<h1>I Speak out of the Exeter Book</h1>


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font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>in a “mildly frightening way

... usurping the human <o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>prerogative of speech.”<span

style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>A parallelogram<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>like the deflected element

in cutwork<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>(an embroidery technique), I

ask you who I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Diane Glancy<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>said, “These letters can be

read as holes in the text.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>You can look through

them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>What is there.<span

style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Fabio and Charro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>The hole is a gate.<span

style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I am a field like a sieve.<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>I may have been made by

Hwaetbert, Abbot of Wearmouth,<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>and friend of the Venerable

Bede, who invented the rosary,<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>or Hildegarde von

Binghamton, maybe a SUNY grad student?<o:p></o:p></span></p>


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<h1>Boot and Bonnet</h1>


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font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>He picked me up in the

vaunted car.<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>When Milton wrote, “The

gilded car<o:p></o:p></span></p>


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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>of day,”<span

style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>he meant this car, a NASCAR <o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>reject, with a broccoli elastic

holding the tailpipe on the car.<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>“‘Special’ is such a general

word,” he of the car<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>allowed to me, dreaming in

the car.<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span

style='font-family:Arial'>Car<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span

style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span

style='font-family:Arial'>and Driver </span></i><span style='font-family:Arial'>is

his favorite car<o:p></o:p></span></p>


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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>magazine.<span

style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In Connecticut they have Connecticar,<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>which brings you borrowed books

in its car.<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>A worn Bokhara lines the

trunk of the car.<o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>


<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>Brits say boot for trunk,

and bonnet for the front of the car.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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