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Once there was a man. // He kept his basketball / underneath the pinball // machine he was playing // in an underground bar. / The center of my body // called out to his. And // his response was to let / silver roll down the center.

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we have sung🎵 Read the full poem on Poetry Nor we have sung🎵 Read the full poem on Poetry Northwest online today. Karen Elizabeth Bishop is a UK/US poet, translator, and scholar. She teaches literature and literary translation at Rutgers University and divides her time between the wilds of New Jersey and Sevilla, Spain. Her debut poetry collection, the deering hour, was published in September 2021 by Ornithopter Press.
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