Sinkholes

By Joyce Carol Oates

take you where

you don’t want to go.

Where you’d been

and had passed smilingly through,

and were alive. Then.

Source: Poetry (July/August 2018)

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Novelist, essayist, and poet Joyce Carol Oates was born in Lockport, New York. She earned a BA from Syracuse University, where she graduated valedictorian, and an MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century, Oates counts historical...

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