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Poetry

dove rowing wings oars
turning lifting over this glitter
rubble world gone wrong

no water food medicine fuel
Christmas is canceled in Bethlehem

God is a watering hole, I dreamed

they are bombing everything
bombing, bombing away

steal away stole a way
homenohome

stolen good

then the rain
rain flooding the tents

o dove

 

 


Martha Collins has published eleven books of poetry, most recently Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh), and five volumes of co-translated Vietnamese poetry, most recently Dreaming the Mountain by Tuê Sy˜ (Milkweed). www.marthacollinspoet.com 

 

 

 

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