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*I may want to lie still*
*And think about my choices.*
- *Rae Armantrout*
I lie in late
beside my wife
listening to the first birds
of the third day of autumn.
When their song pauses
I slowly swing my legs over
bed's edge and contemplate
our day while the blood
settles in my flow pattern.
Bird song begins again.
I whistle back, hoarsely,
and my wife disturbs in bed.
ii
Which t-shirt will I wear?
Shakespeare quote,
Beckett portrait, or
the black one, the one I call
*Night Life in Corowa*?
iii
It's Tuesday. Today
the Country Women's Association
meets in the corrugated red hall
opposite the IGA Supermarket.
My wife returns with
Pelargonian plants to plant
and a book of craft patterns,
aptly called *Closely*KNIT.
Andrew
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