POEM

Here is a poem from Jean Valentine's most recent collection
Break The Glass (Copper Canyon, 2010):

"HE DISAPPEARED INTO COMPLETE SILENCE

The wild ladders of longing
no longer pieces of wild wood, sawed off
and fitted to each other,
no longer stored in a closed-off room
with one blank window

But called back, through
the closed-off wooden ceiling, to his
speech returned."

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