Poets/David Wojahn

David Wojahn

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Bottles on the closet floor, …

David Wojahn

The night mist leaves us yearning for a new location …

David Wojahn

Under the trellised arbor, and our supper’s over …

David Wojahn

Jerboa on a triple: I was in for it, …

David Wojahn

Her first child belongs to the crows …

David Wojahn

How long it must have been, the girl’s hair, …

David Wojahn

Or gallery. Or strange askew museum. Or painting of a hotel bed …

David Wojahn

Blurring the window, the snowflakes' numb white lanterns. …

David Wojahn

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