Noon Concert

By Dorothea Grossman

These frail, white widows

who get their hair done weekly

in tight curls,

like little flowers,

bend their heads

until the applause

says it’s time

to be brave again.

Source: Poetry (March 2010)

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Dorothea "Dottie" Grossman lived in Los Angeles for over 30 years. Poetry magazine awared her its J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize in 2010. Grossman wrote about her poems, “I like to think [they] are honest and that they connect me with my fellow...

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