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Divorcing American Beauty My ex-wife leans against Her belly will taste What lengths I
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If he stares |
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Turns her |
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he can have, |
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of a couple once |
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in a tango |
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Wynn Yarbrough is finishing his Ph.D. in Children's Literature at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. His poems, interviews, and book reviews have appeared in the Pedestal Magazine, the Potomac Review, Segue, Black Zinnias, and Branches Quarterly. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2004 and has just finished a manuscript, Forgiving is Easy, where these poems are from. He spends a lot of time with water and birds when he isn't pretending to be a kid and a scholar at the same time. |
Copyright 2005, Wynn Yarbrough. This work is protected under the U.S. copyright laws. It may not be reproduced, reprinted, reused, or altered without the expressed written permission of the author. |