Poets/Marianne Boruch

Marianne Boruch

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They wore out the a …

Marianne Boruch

low sweet spot, blind as certain insects to follow …

Marianne Boruch

Birdsong, face it, some male machine …

Marianne Boruch

It’s mostly someone …

Marianne Boruch

He was touched or he touched or …

Marianne Boruch

It seems so— …

Marianne Boruch

It includes the butterfly and the rat, the shit …

Marianne Boruch

I found Rome in the woods. …

Marianne Boruch

They redid King Tut splendid, …

Marianne Boruch

I walked out, and the nest …

Marianne Boruch

On rain washed paper dried, ink …

Marianne Boruch

My drawing teacher said: Look, think, make a mark. …

Marianne Boruch

I gave up the pencil, the walk in woods, the fog …

Marianne Boruch

Some dreamily smoke cigarettes, some track …

Marianne Boruch

Day after day of rain. A ticket straight to …

Marianne Boruch

has its little hobbies. The lung …

Marianne Boruch

The spell is a mouth’s …

Marianne Boruch

When I think of the dead, it means …

Marianne Boruch

Not that I understand things. …

Marianne Boruch

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