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Small Moth
She's slicing ripe white peaches
into the Tony the Tiger bowl
and dropping slivers for the dog
poised vibrating by her foot to stop their fall
when she spots it, camouflaged,
a glimmer and then full on—
happiness, plashing blunt soft wings
inside her as if it wants
to escape again.
Source: Poetry (October 2008).
Biography
Sarah Lindsay is the author of Primate Behavior (1997), Mount Clutter (2002)—both from Grove Press—and Twigs and Knucklebones (Copper Canyon Press, 2008).
Poems by Sarah Lindsay
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SUBJECT Relationships, Home Life
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