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Envoi
Josiah Redmond · Public domain
Go, little verse, and do not stay
to hear what any critic said.
You were not written for the wise.
You were written to be read

by one tired person on a stair
at the wrong end of a heavy year,
who will not know my name at all,
and will, for half a moment, hear.

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Morning Shift, Bakery
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Andrew Tye
Forty-one poems that never left the house.
Some are bad. Some are only unfinished.
Some are finished and I got scared.

Tonight I am going to post one.
Not the best one. The one that is true
in the place where I usually go quiet.

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Nightfall at the Cottage Door
Clara Ann Fenwick · Public domain
The kettle sings, the lamp is trimmed,
the road goes dark beyond the gate,
and all the world that is not here
has kindly agreed to wait.

Come in. There is a chair for you.
There is not much, and it is warm.
Whatever business brought you out
can sit outside and hold the storm.

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Learning My Neighbor's Name in Year Four
Andrew Tye
Rosalind. Four years of nodding
and it turns out she is Rosalind,
and she has been calling me the tall one
to her sister, on the phone, since 2022.

We have swapped a ladder, a jump start,
one box of misdelivered mail,
and now, at last, two syllables each.
This is how a street becomes a place.

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The Cardiologist Is Very Calm
Andrew Tye
He uses the word interesting
about a picture of my heart
and I decide, on the spot, that I hate the word interesting.

Then he says the other word,
the one that means we caught it,
and the room comes back at its regular temperature,
and I thank him twice, badly, and go sit in my car.

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O Tan-faced Prairie Boy
Walt Whitman · Public domain
O tan-faced prairie boy!
Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift;
Praises and presents came, and nourishing food--till at last, among the
        recruits,
You came, taciturn, with nothing to give--we but looked on each other,
When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.
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Ode to the Person Who Answers the Phone
Andrew Tye
Praise the human voice at the end of the tree
of options, saying let me look at that for you.

Praise the pause that means real typing.
Praise the sentence that begins with okay, I see what happened.

You are underpaid and lightly hated
by everyone who reaches you at their worst,
and you have fixed, today, four hundred small disasters
that would have ruined four hundred separate evenings.

Nobody writes odes for this.
Consider it written.

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