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In Your House, the Platitudes
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"Between two blades, which bears the better temper"
--Henry VI, Pt. 1
irk as they unfurl. A fly
on the pew back struts
in light, jerks and swerves,
finds a hymnal page.
Now stop and shut the book
on it. The incense swirls.
Your house: swollen with embarrassed grief.
Your house: edged in the greenest silk. In
your house, the reigning, reining, raining
souls drop down. Noose of the chandelier.
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Writer
Bio
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Susan Wheeler is the author of three collections of poetry: Bag 'o' Diamonds, Smokes, and Source Codes. Her work has appeared in six editions of the Scribner anthology, The Best American Poetry, as well as numerous publications, including The Paris Review, New American Writing, Talisman, and The New Yorker. Bag 'o' Diamonds received the Norma Farber First Book Award of the Poetry Society of America and was short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Other awards include fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches at Princeton University.
susanwheeler@earthlink.net
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