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More PoemsMiracle Ice Cream
Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue, Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls, and, yes, you can feel happy with one piece of your heart. Take what's still given: in a room's rich shadow a woman's breasts swinging lightly as she bends. Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves. Late, you sit weighing the evening news, fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions, the rest of your heart.
1995
My Philosophy of Life
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough
for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—
call it a philosophy of life, if you will. Briefly,
it involved living the way philosophers live,
according to a set of principles. OK, but which ones?
1995
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Read more about >Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010).
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Books
| Title | Author | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borderland Apocrypha | Anthony Cody | Poetry Book | |
| Year of the Dog | Deborah Paredez | Poetry Book | |
| The Malevolent Volume | Justin Phillip Reed | Poetry Book | |
| Indigo | Ellen Bass | Poetry Book | |
| DMZ Colony | Don Mee Choi |