Poets/Gail Mazur

Gail Mazur

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One of those appointments you postpone …

Gail Mazur

The game of baseball is not a metaphor …

Gail Mazur

I go into our bedroom closet …

Gail Mazur

Sometimes she’s Confucian— …

Gail Mazur

Asleep until noon, I'm dreaming …

Gail Mazur

I want to find my way back to her, …

Gail Mazur

The black kitten cries at her bowl …

Gail Mazur

In the warming house, children lace their skates, …

Gail Mazur

I’d dislocated my life, so I went to the zoo. …

Gail Mazur

Hot hot hot, you are hot, Sun, …

Gail Mazur

Clarice, the Swiss Appraiser, paces our rooms, listing furnishings …

Gail Mazur

On the telephone, friends mistake us now …

Gail Mazur

of these long scorching days …

Gail Mazur

I've already grown a goiter from this torture, …

Gail Mazur

He reminds me of someone I used to know, …

Gail Mazur

I say to the named granite stone, to the brown grass, …

Gail Mazur

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