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… Blanco had spent the previous year working on several commissioned occasional poems and had been exploring the … the poem to cooperate, to syncopate with the photo while also standing on its own. How to lock into the subject of … a single line. Flirting with a title. “I can’t fully commit to a poem until that warm-up is done—what I like to …

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… Traffic Jam The words come slowly, arrive slowly, changed by travel; some are … softened and faded and what it touches it softens and fades also. End of a season. The trimmings for the festival were … to point and stare. Pretend you don’t notice are words that come easily: our mothers used to hiss them into our ears, …

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