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Absence, Opera, Beans, Dreams
A selection of verses from new collections.
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In the Junk Store
A small, straw basket
Full of medals
From good old wars
No one recalls.
I flipped one over
To feel the pin
That once pierced
The hero's swelling chest.
Charles Simic from "That Little Something" (Harcourt, $23)
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