Linda Pastan Face Poems
- 1. What We Want
What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
we thought we wanted:
... - 2. Something About The Trees
I remember what my father told me:
There is an age when you are most yourself.
He was just past fifty then,
Was it something about the trees that make him speak?
... - 3. Self-portrait
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... - 4. The Cossacks
For Jews, the Cossacks are always coming.
Therefore I think the sun spot on my arm
is melanoma. Therefore I celebrate
New Year's Eve by counting
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