April is National Poetry Month, and to mark the occasion 188体育app_188体育在线-平台官网?asked?Master of Fine Arts?candidates to share their work.?Here's?Dan?Haislet's?poem "413 E Cherry?Street."?Take?a read or sit back?and listen.?Have a poem you'd like to share? Contact us at?unh.today@unh.edu.??
413 E Cherry Street?
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Snow begins to buzz into the sifted evening?
You remove your shoes at the door?
Billie Holiday’s album cover is orange?
She???????sings beautifully?
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You water the ferns in the nude?
Long curls flick your parchment skin?
You sway near the brass-colored couch?
I am the voyeur who lives inside you?
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For a discount this fall?
you bought a pot of red mums?
as the colors of summer buckled?
against the descending weight of autumn?
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Now our color is the orange?
of low sodium streetlights?
casting shape in a blizzard?
The mums are dead?
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Inside the lights are on?
Our town?
is a dark town at?night?
with an observatory on the hill?
that we could see from here?
if we had shut off the lights?
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—Dan?Haislet?
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Published with?permission of the author?
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Compiled By:
Fatimah Nouilati '18 | UNH Communications and Public Affairs
