Today's poem is "Questions about the Wife"

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June 3, 2009:   "Rain on the Roof" by Beverley Bie Brahic
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February 20, 2009:   "Holidays and Sundays" by David Bottoms
November 21, 2008:   "Approaching Thunder" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
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June 6, 2007:   "Not Mattering to the Earth" by Colette Inez
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November 24, 2004:  "In Thrush Light" by Gyorgyi Voros
November 23, 2004:  "To Acedia" by Daniel Tobin
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