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Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labor in the weekday weather made

banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.

When the rooms were warm, he’d call,

and slowly I would rise and dress,

fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,

who had driven out the cold

and polished my good shoes as well.

What did I know, what did I know

of love’s austere and lonely offices?

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Those Winter SundaysRobert Hayden(1913-1980)

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“Those Winter Sundays” from Angle of Ascent: New and CollectedPoems. Copyright © 1966 by Robert Hayden. Reprinted with the permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

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O Tell Me the TruthAbout LoveW. H. Auden(1907-1973)from “O Tell Me the Truth About Love,” copyright © 1940 & renewed 1968 by W.H. Auden,from Collected Poems by W.H. Auden. Used bypermission of Random House, Inc.


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O tell me the truth about love.

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You are the manYou are my other countryand I find it hard going

You are the prickly pearYou are the sudden violent storm

Wildernessthe torrent to raise the riverto float the wounded doe

Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970)“Wilderness” by Lorine Niedecker from LorineNiedecker: Collected Works, edited by JennyPennberthy, published by the University ofCalifornia Press. Copyright © 2002 by The Regentsof the University of California. Reprinted with thepermission of the University of California Press.



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CommunicationAlicia Partnoy(b. 1955)


From Revenge of the Apple/Venganza de la manzana.Copyright © 1992 Alicia Partnoy.Published by Cleis Press. Translated by Richard Schaaf, ReginaKreger, and the author. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

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A Little Toothyour wife, get old, flyblown, and ruenothing. You did, you loved, your feetare sore. It’s dusk. Your daughter’s tall.

Thomas Lux (b. 1946)“A Little Tooth” from Drowned River by Thomas Lux.Copyright ©1990 by Thomas Lux. Used by permissionof Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


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Charmed Those Winter Sundays Charm Bracelets (1913 …graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20080607_ABOUT.pdf · 07.06.2008 · Those Winter Sundays ... from Collected Poems