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Today's poem is "The Estate of Single Blessedness"

from Crazyhorse

Mary Ruefle's Selected Poems was published by Wave Books in 2010; a collection of her lectures and essays on poetry, Madness, Rack and Honey, will appear in the fall of 2011.

Other poems by Mary Ruefle in Verse Daily:
February 18, 2011:   "Like a Daffodil" "What went on when I suddenly understood him..."
January 3, 2011:   "Why I Am Not a Good Kisser" "Because I open my mouth too wide..."
November 1, 2008:   "Spanish Fruit Bomb" "My literary inclinations..."
July 10, 2008:   "A Certain Swirl" "The classroom was dark, all the desks were empty..."
July 1, 2008:   "Snow" "Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have..."
August 2, 2004:  "Speak, Zero" "There was a morning bowl of cereal..."

Books by Mary Ruefle:

Other poems on the web by Mary Ruefle:
"The Art of Happiness"
"Helium"
Four poems
"Talking to strangers"
from A Little White Shadow,
"The Hand"
"Ballad"
"Storm Window"

Mary Ruefle's Website.

Mary Ruefle According to Wikipedia.

About Crazyhorse:

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Other poems from Crazyhorse in Verse Daily:
February 18, 2011:   "Like a Daffodil" by Mary Ruefle
January 27, 2011:   "Valentine with broken birds" by Joni Wallace
January 23, 2011:   "First Domestic" by Anne Marie Rooney
January 19, 2011:   "Valentine with saints and sharps" by Joni Wallace
September 27, 2010:   "Timbered" by Emily Rosko
September 26, 2010:   "Cell Phone God" by Henry Hart
September 24, 2010:   "Not Something To Be Captured, Did You See the Signs?" by Lucy Anderton
January 21, 2010:   "Aubade with whales" by Bob Hicok
January 18, 2010:   "Earth and Sky" "Of all things contained here..."
July 9, 2009:   "The Fox" by Dean Young
July 6, 2009:   "The House Rhapsody" by John Gallaher
July 1, 2009:   "Matryoshka" by Teresa Pfeifer
June 29, 2009:   "The Euphoria of Peoria" by Dean Young
January 9, 2009:   "Go On, Sure, Why Not" by Gail Wronsky
January 8, 2009:   "Psalm against a Rapture" by K. A. Hays
January 7, 2009:   "In the hospital parking lot" by Marianne Boruch
July 26, 2008:   "Fire" by Edip Caserver, translated by Richard Tillinghast and Julia Clare Tillinghast
July 21, 2008:   "(detail)" by Billy Collins
January 6, 2008:   "bearing on the glory of love" by Deborah Bogen
January 5, 2008:   "The Dime-Store Parakeet" by Gary Soto
June 15, 2007:   "O Mouth Fable" by Elena Karina Byrne
June 12, 2007:   "Eat This" by Nance Van Winckel
June 11, 2007:   "Inside the Body" by Nathan Hoks
December 24, 2006:   "Northwest" by Stacie Cassarino
December 21, 2006:   "If We Are Pretty Ghosts. Hammered In" by Kerri Webster
December 18, 2006:   "Salt" by Gary Soto
June 11, 2006:   "Eight" by Todd Smith
June 10, 2006:   "Anecdote of the Field" by John Gallaher
June 7, 2006:   "Bitterness" by Charlie Smith
June 5, 2006:   "Again (Wrightsville Beach)" by Robert Creeley
December 23, 2005:   "Spell for Setting the Sun" by Susan Meyers
December 20, 2005:   "And the Wound Says" by Nance Van Winckel
December 18, 2005:   "The Elephant's Graveyard" by David Wagoner
May 19, 2005:  "Levels" Alexandra Teague
May 18, 2005:  "Poem with No Moral at the End" Charlie Clark
November 28, 2004:  "Spring and Winter, Coeval" by Charles M. Israel, Jr.
November 26, 2004:  "Botanists Who Feel Excluded Rejoice" by Anthony Lacavaro
May 23, 2004:  "Template" by A. V. Christie
May 21, 2004:  "Is More Than" by Susan Hutton
May 17, 2004:  "Solar Ice" by Paul Mariani
December 12, 2003:  "East Dakota" by Edward Haworth Hoeppner
December 4, 2003:  "May Suspensions" by James McCorkle
November 27, 2003:  "Reservoir" by Doug Sanders
May 14, 2003:  "Owls in the City Hills" by D. R. Goodman
May 13, 2003:  "The Sightstop" by Bill Knott
January 26, 2003:  "To His Mistress Going to Bed" by Nathan Hoks
January 21, 2003:  "The Teller is the Only Survivor of the Fairy-Tale Ending" by Mark Yakich
January 20, 2003:  "Cicadas And" by Nathan Hoks

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