Poets/Marie Howe

Marie Howe

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What does it matter that this cold June breaks, another dish …

Marie Howe

There’s always a chainsaw somewhere, …

Marie Howe

Hearing a low growl in your throat, you'll know that it's started. …

Marie Howe

We stop at the dry cleaners and the grocery store …

Marie Howe

My father's oak, three years taller, stands taller now than I. …

Marie Howe

My mother knows all about the under-dark. …

Marie Howe

What we did to the earth, we did to our daughters …

Marie Howe

I want to write a love poem for the girls I kissed in seventh grade, …

Marie Howe

Immense, entirely itself, …

Marie Howe

I had no idea that the gate I would step through …

Marie Howe

I. …

Marie Howe

The boys of summer are climbing the building, …

Marie Howe

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