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Summer Love, Winter Fires
Poems by Wendy Priesnitz


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People are always sending
poems through the mail that
they think will interest
me or else they bring
their stuff to visit
and we waste a few
important hours by
complimenting each other's
words because they have
to take advantage of
knowing a poet two
dimensions of flattery
we'd be better making love
I can remember a musician
saying how people are
always thinking they must
talk about the performance
instead of the weather
or beautiful girls

 

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remembering
last summer
the way David
needed so badly
to leave the new
people flowers
in his old garden
when he moved

we went for them
in my car
David driving
wildly

Jack and I
planted 3 dozen
mixed petunias
complaining
while David
made a poem

These poems were first published in the book Summer Love, Winter Fires (The Alternate Press, 1976) by Wendy Priesnitz.

copyright © Wendy Priesnitz 2009

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These poems are available for reprinting in magazines or newsletters, or on websites. Please contact me first.