A weed green
with a black shadow village under it
and then browngray dirt then a browngray stick
stuck on a stone
which has its own black shoah moat to the north
how hungrily life like an o
goes after life
Jean Valentine
Jean Valentine is the author of nine books of poetry, including Door in the Mountain, New & Collected Poems (Wesleyan, 2004). She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and was awarded the Shelley Memorial Prize by the Poetry Society of America in 2000. She lives in New York City.
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