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Valerie Wohlfeld
Valerie Wohlfeld won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in 1994. Her most recent book is Woman with Wing Removed (Truman State University Press).
My cross to bear
You are gone, Lord, but I am still hanging.
Though I cannot fathom your agony,
surely you know mine. How can I be free
of your pain and you of my pain?—one wing...
Fear like love and death and beauty
Because I could not drive, my mother had to drive me
to the phobia clinic where I went to get over my fear of driving,...
Tin of buttons
Saved for some new next world,
the double-eyed holes for the thread;
the toggle, the bone and pearl.
On the thick camel coat, the awl once guided the thread....
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