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Poetry: From the January/February 2010 issue | See all poetry



After Reading Juarroz

All day the tree
has been falling
from its fruit.

The sound is terrible.

It’s the part
even hardened reporters
leave out of the story.

The fruits roll
into the ditch.

Even the wind,
even the flies,
in their sorrow,

will not touch them.

- Andrea Cohen

Andrea Cohen is author of Long Division and The Cartographer’s Vacation. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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