Poets/Mary Szybist

Mary Szybist

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Are you sure this blue is the same as the …

Mary Szybist

Mary who mattered to me, gone or asleep …

Mary Szybist

I had the happy idea to suspend some blue globes in the air …

Mary Szybist

Flashing in the grass; the mouth of a spider clung …

Mary Szybist

Knock me or nothing, the things of this world …

Mary Szybist

The job was easy: I tucked …

Mary Szybist

—how her loose curls float …

Mary Szybist

Just for this evening, let's not mock them. …

Mary Szybist

Again this morning my eyes woke up too close …

Mary Szybist

The sculptures in this gallery have been …

Mary Szybist

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