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David Baker’s forthcoming collection, Swift: New and Selected Poems, will appear in spring of 2019 from W. W. Norton. He is poetry editor of The Kenyon Review and teaches at Denison University in Granville, Ohio
One starts. The still heat is a blown curtain.
The curtain wavers then—now two of them—
and another from beyond the blue agave.
Soon the whistling, wheet-eet-eet, the many,
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