Monday, January 23, 2023

RELOCATING

My homeless men around a fire,

Tiring of waiting for me

To write of them again, 

Rebuild their fire in Detroit

And slip into one of Philip Levine's poems.

Cleverly, they choose a poet

From whom I cannot demand their return

Since he died eight years ago. Are they

Now in every copy of his poem

Or just the ones I read?

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