Poetry Magazine
When I Was In Love and Out of All Else
“It must be awful,” she said to the dog locked in it
as she left the kitchen that wasn’t hers, closing its door,
to head up the stairs with every good thing she could find
to eat in her arms
(to eat in her arms—O Katherine!)
“not to have any arms.”
Source: Poetry (July/August 2011).
Poems by Liz Waldner
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Love, Activities, Eating & Drinking
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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