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Molly Peacock
Molly Peacock was born in 1947 in Buffalo, New York. She attended the State University of New York at Binghamton and Johns Hopkins University, where she received an M.A. ...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Anniversaries
Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri
by Mona Van Duyn
Francesco and Clare
by David St. John
I Married You
by Linda Pastan
Man and Wife
by Robert Lowell
My Wife
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Orpheus
by Robert Kelly
The Anniversary
by John Donne
The Elephant is Slow to Mate
by D.H. Lawrence
The Storm
by Theodore Roethke
To My Dear and Loving Husband
by Anne Bradstreet
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Couple Sharing a Peach  
by Molly Peacock

It's not the first time

we've bitten into a peach.
But now at the same time
it splits--half for each.
Our "then" is inside its "now,"
its halved pit unfleshed--

what was refreshed.
Two happinesses unfold
from one joy, folioed.
In a hotel room
our moment lies
with its ode inside,
a red tinge,
with a hinge.



From Cornucopia by Molly Peacock. Copyright © 2002 by Molly Peacock. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
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