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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font><span style="text-transform:uppercase">Oklahoma in Winter</span><span style="text-transform:uppercase"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>is no place to live </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>not tonight.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>We carry, we name our own. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>Pebble </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>underfoot</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>bothers</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font><span> </span><i><span> </span>cold, cold water</i></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font>and we roll our pants up, </font></p>
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<p style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal"><font>carry the pebble home.</font></p><p style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal"><font><br></font></p>
<p style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal"><font> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Stacy Kidd</b><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">’s poems have appeared in <i>Boston Review</i>, <i>Columbia</i>, <i>Eleven Eleven</i>, <i>WITNESS</i>, and <i>The Iowa Review</i>, among others. Her chapbooks <i>About Birds</i> and <i>A man in a
boat in the summer</i> were released this fall from dancing girl
press and Beard of Bees.</span></font><span style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
<br>-- <br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>