What Keeps, by C.D. Wright
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We live on a hillside
close to water
We eat in darkness
We sleep in the coldest
part of the house
We love in silence
We keep our poetry
locked in a glass cabinet
some nights We stay up
passing it back and
forth
between us
drinking deep
From “Tremble” by C.D. Wright (Ecco: 60 pp., $12). Copyright 1997 Reprinted by permission.