Poets/Mary Karr

Mary Karr

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I read somewhere …

Mary Karr

The Devil’s tour of hell did not include …

Mary Karr

On the mudroad of plodding American bodies, …

Mary Karr

From the far star points of his pinned extremities, …

Mary Karr

Once warring factions agreed upon the date …

Mary Karr

Before my first communion, I clung to doubt …

Mary Karr

In the valley of your art history book, …

Mary Karr

Stare hard enough at the fabric of night, …

Mary Karr

No sooner does the plane angle up …

Mary Karr

The gym opened out …

Mary Karr

The King saith, and his arm swept the landscape’s foliage into bloom …

Mary Karr

On this first dark day of the year …

Mary Karr

I came awake in kindergarten, …

Mary Karr

I hope you’ve been taken up by Jesus …

Mary Karr

Today I heard a rich and hungry boy verbatim quote …

Mary Karr

While the tennis ball went back and forth in time …

Mary Karr

Jesus wound up with his body nailed to a tree— …

Mary Karr

Our falter, whose art is Heavy, …

Mary Karr

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