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There is no I in teamwork

but there is a two maker

there is no I in together

but there is a got three

a get to her

the I in relationship

is the heart I slip on

a lithe prison

in all communication

we count on a mimic

(I am not uncomic)

our listening skills

are silent killings

there is no we in marriage

but a grim area

there is an I in family

also my fail

Source: Poetry (October 2008).

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This poem originally appeared in the October 2008 issue of Poetry magazine

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Biography

Craig Arnold earned his BA in English from Yale University and his PhD in creative writing from the University of Utah. Arnold’s second collection of poetry, Made Flesh (2008), is “motored by vividly earthy language and disguised philosophical sophistication,” observed Publishers Weekly in a starred review, praising “sequences neither (quite) lyric nor narrative, but erotic and ever alert.” The raw, emotional intensity of Made . . .

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Poems by Craig Arnold

• Bird-Understander
• Incubus
• Meditation on a Grapefruit
• The Invisible Birds of Central America
• The Singers

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Poem Categorization

SUBJECT Living, Marriage & Companionship, Disappointment & Failure, Relationships, Men & Women, Arts & Sciences, Humor & Satire

POET’S REGION U.S., Northwestern

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