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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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Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Edward Powys Mathers
Edward Powys Mathers was born on August 28, 1892, in Forest Hill, London. He was educated at Loretto School and Trinity College, Oxford.Read more about >
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Photo credit: Michael Rakovan Rachel McKibbens
Rachel McKibbens is a Chicana poet and the author of blud (Copper Canyon Press, 2017); Into the Dark & Emptying Field (Small Doggies Press, 2013); and Pink Elephant (Cypher Books, 2009).Read more about >
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