"I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms"
----Wallace Stevens
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird"
Marybeth Rua-Larsen
Marybeth Rua-Larsen has had poetry published or forthcoming in The Paterson Literary Review, Concho River Review, kaleidowhirl, Blue Unicorn and The Worcester Review, among others, as well as the anthology Stories from Where We Live: The North Atlantic Coast. She was a semi-finalist in the 1999 Discovery/The Nation poetry contest and a finalist for the 2007 Philbrick Poetry Award.
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Marybeth Rua-Larsen
Hanging the Wreath
I nail it to the door; it doesn't swing
or fall
or blow away; I make it stick,
unlike our holidays, your latest
fling,
I nail it to the door. It doesn't swing,
like you,
proposing with a diamond ring --
and then surprised by No; I've
learned the trick:
I nail it to the door; it doesn't swing
or fall
or blow
away; I make it stick.
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