Oregon Humanities Spring/Summer 2007

Cover of Oregon Humanities Spring/Summer 2007
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Patience

by Laton Carter


What in her newspaper is

so necessary? She shakes the crease out,

adjusts her glasses, settles back in.


A plural of new:

for each as of yet uncalled-upon calamity,

a previous life


now made public, less previous,

a half-life already diminishing.


With so much conditioning of interest,

interest falls apart.

On the other side of the window,


what that stranger found on his kitchen counter

unknowable in his face, his slow walk:


Ryan --

I know I broke your heart. Please forgive me.

I have to understand many things.

I don't understand me.


Published in the Spring/Summer 2007 issue of Oregon Humanities.

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