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TIMOTHY O'KEEFE

To Robert Duncan

Trace me simple--
a figure the children can't
not color in, circle
of an unsteady hand--
if never more than this flame
under the hill, a flowering index,
this black dog chasing an atmosphere.

Crayon-lit trunks
crush to paper, millenia to sheaves we
populate—a simpering June,
a julep, some heirloom fear
we couldn't look up
the picture for, the meaning for.





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Timothy O'Keefe is the author of The Goodbye Town, winner of the 2010 FIELD Poetry Prize. His poems and lyric essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, Seneca Review, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He lives in Athens, Georgia, where he is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Piedmont College

   
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