Deborah Ager Poems

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1.
Night: San Francisco

Rain drenches the patio stones.
All night was spent waiting
for an earthquake, and instead
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2.
The Lake

The yard half a yard,
half a lake blue as a corpse.
The lake will tell things you long to hear:
get away from here.
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3.
The Space Coast

Florida

An Airedale rolling through green frost,
cabbage palms pointing their accusing leaves
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4.
Morning

We are what we repeatedly do.
—Aristotle

You know how it is waking
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5.
Alone

Over the fence, the dead settle in
for a journey. Nine o'clock.
You are alone for the first time
today. Boys asleep. Husband out.
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6.
Santa Fe In Winter

The city is closing for the night.
Stores draw their blinds one by one,
and it's dark again, save for the dim
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7.
Summer Nights

The factory siren tells workers time to go home
tells them the evening has begun.
When living with the tall man
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8.
Night In Iowa

9.
Dear Deborah,

They tell me that your heart
has been found in Iowa,
pumping along Interstate 35.
Do you want it back?
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10.
The Tortoise In Keystone Heights

When I knew, it was raining.
Winter in decline. I was tired.
You in your soaked shirt diffused
into the western sky bulging with clouds,
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