Best Determining Poems

Caseworker Determining Eligibility 

		Cabrini-Green Projects
		Chicago

The child, age two, hammocked in the half
moon of his mother’s arms, is locked
in palsy, yet moves an eyelid as I ask, 
moves the other as his mother answers,
application form interrogation.
The father was a white policeman.
“Curiosity,” the mother says. “No more.
I...

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Tonight I will bury my lover under a bed of clovers;
surfacing the soil with vines and leaves that spread from my hands.
And tomorrow I will savor the silence
as I taste each moment the sky settles into the horizon,
laughing as I groom each flower above your...

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