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Poetry

Clutter

by Jeanne Murray Walker
March 18, 2019

I am finally down
to what I need: one

table to double
for eating/writing,

one pen, and enough
alphabet to spell

Your name when
You choose to

disclose it.

 

Jeanne Murray Walker

@jmurraywalker

Jeanne Murray Walker teaches at the University of Delaware. Her most recent book is Helping the Morning: New and Selected Poems.

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