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Sally Van Doren
Sally Van Doren
Van Doren was awarded the 2007 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for her first collection of poems, Sex at Noon Taxes, selected by August Kleinzahler...
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by Sally Van Doren

I chart the psyche,
observing how I 
force myself to speak
to you, imagining that
together we might
transform a life.  

Why this need
to document change,
to reverse a mood, 
to carry forward the time
when magnolias bloom?

Let’s follow the itinerant we
up and over the jonquil's back,
treading on its spilled bullion.



From Sex At Noon Taxes, Copyright © 2007 by Sally Van Doren. Reprinted with permission of the author.
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