The Little Book of Guesses
by John Gallaher
Winner of the 2005 Levis Poetry Prize selected by Henri Cole
ISBN: 978-1-884800-77-1
paper, 64 pages, $14.95
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ON YOUR BRILLIANT ESCAPE
In the city of the made-up city,
you can watch them meet.
Desire in the backyard.
Desire down the lane. Wallowing.
You can press
your enormous eye
to their window, and see them
taking it up,
becoming little red birds.
And you can demand they hear you,
there at the light switch,
a fist the size of the opera house.
I’m small. I fall soft,
they could say.
I’m lovely. I know you.
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