Gift of the Book

Vandal Poem of the Day: February 4, 2016

by C.D. Wright
lights go off
all over
rhode island
everyone falls
into bed
I stay awake
reading
rereading
the long-awaited
prose
of your
body
stunned
by the hunger
from Steal AwayFind it in the library
Copyright © 2002 C.D. Wright 
Used with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc.
on behalf of Copper Canyon Press.

Published in C.D. Wright Poems

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