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Poem for Tice

Two unlikely lovers meeting in the dark —your name. (They meet again.)                                 Your name is the chatter of a flurry of finches. It is delicate but practiced as the steps of the nervous tightrope walker. Your name—                                 pink toes in May, or mornings in a Pilsen apartment— tittering asparagus (in the pan after the lemon’s […]