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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 >Safiya Sinclair is the author of Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), winner of the 2015 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.
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Read more about >Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist and poet born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England.
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| Borderland Apocrypha | Anthony Cody | Poetry Book | |
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| The Malevolent Volume | Justin Phillip Reed | Poetry Book | |
| Indigo | Ellen Bass | Poetry Book | |
| DMZ Colony | Don Mee Choi |