Today's poem is
"This Is What Life Does"
from Rattle
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Today's poem is
"This Is What Life Does"
from Rattle
Marjorie Saiser
's Losing the Ring in the River (University of New Mexico Press) won the Willa Award for Poetry. Saiser's most recent book, The Track the Whales Make (University of Nebraska Press), deals with all the ways love goes right and love goes wrong. Well, maybe not all the ways . . .
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