Gift of the Book, By C. D. Wright
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lights go off
all over
rhode island
everyone falls
into bed
I stay awake
reading
re-reading
the long-awaited
prose
of your
body
stunned
by the hunger
From “Tremble” by C. D. Wright (The Ecco Press: 60 pp., $12 paper)
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