gift of the book, by cd wright
Gift of the Book
lights go off
all over rhode island
everyone falls
into bed
I stay awake
reading
rereading
the long-awaited
prose
of your
body
stunned
by the hunger
— C.D. Wright, Tremble (also in Steal Away: Selected and New Poems)
This Couple
Wow! Lia gave me Steal Away, the selected poems of C.D. Wright, which I’m sure she leafed through before sending it over to Manila. It saves me from having to get each individual C.D. collection. I met C.D. Wright and…