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WASTE BASKET

 

Will it hold the thick drips of a harpsichord?

Place it upon the sill, a wicker bowl.

The air steers round.  This is a plain bad dole.

A wire nest even the moon won’t put its flakes in.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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