Poets/Kim Addonizio

Kim Addonizio

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I want a red dress. …

Kim Addonizio

The fish are drifting calmly in their tank …

Kim Addonizio

I know my friend is going, …

Kim Addonizio

Afterwards you had that drunk, drugged look …

Kim Addonizio

In goes the cafeteria worker in her hairnet. …

Kim Addonizio

One stood among the violets …

Kim Addonizio

The rain this morning falls …

Kim Addonizio

Watching that frenzy of insects above the bush of white flowers, …

Kim Addonizio

You know how hard it is sometimes just to walk on the streets downtown, how everything enters you …

Kim Addonizio

I have been one acquainted with the spatula, …

Kim Addonizio

I used an arrow to kill the spider. …

Kim Addonizio

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