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Beauty of this world

and the foghorn bemoaning

its mortality.

A five-syllable answer suitably concludes "Questions":

Middle of July --

what better for breakfast now

than blueberry pie?

Visitors tonight --

who will bike to the market

for swordfish and corn?

Elizabeth asks,

what's up with this haiku thing?

Pinecones in the sand.

McGrath's is an abundant, complex and entertaining imagination.

(Campbell McGrath's poems can be found in his book "Seven Notebooks." Ecco. Copyright 2008 by Campbell McGrath.)

Robert Pinsky's most recent book of poetry is "Gulf Music."


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