Practicing
As the sun finds you,
upstanding,
knotted
at intervals,
gray-green
As you were, limbs
aloft and
eagerly splayed,
still practicing
the old faith
as I do —
these words,
pushed in the fore,
posing
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RAE ARMANTROUT
Wobble
Wesleyan University Press
2018
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