Today's poem is
"The Tightrope Walker"
from Smartish Pace
Lesley Dauer
's first book of poems, The Fagile City (Bluestem, 1996), won the Bluestem Award. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon, 2000) and The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets (New England, 2000). Garrison Keillor has twice read her work on "The Writer's Almanac."
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