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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
“Spring Break” by James Longenbach
James Longenbach
SPRING BREAK
For three days, Friday
Plus the weekend,
I pulled up roots.
I wandered
Freely among women in velvet dresses,
Men in cutaways.
When I signed the guest book
One bowed, one lifted
Fingers to my lips—I was
A field of poppies
Blossoming, then blown.
A blind man gabbling on the bus.
A bicycle colliding with a taxi—lost,
I could be rescued,
Therefore seen.
Vainly I disguised the letters
In [...]
