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THE OKLAHOMA
REVIEW
Volume 8 | Issue 1 | Spring 2007 |
Poetry |
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Print version Janet Butler Death in the Mountains LeAnna Covalt A Few Days after Your Fiftieth Birthday Pagosa Springs Noel
Sloboda
Surfaces Cuts Uncruel Salesman of the Quarter tolbert ghosts laughter Anne Whitehouse Blessings IX Curses II |
Jason W. Selby
Love in the Time of
Colonialism
Those delicate prints, drawn needles that pine for suitors to pursue them. Morning dew
below Victorian mansions. The view
of pastoral gates overgrown. The vine
stands statuesque against the
gray-green copseas though a monument of nature blown
over, intermingling with limbs sown
by fingers from the soil. The timber
rots,
beguiling glances still
advanced by menfrom far-off mountains, and
ship-anchored shores
absorbing sunsets, a bloody mast
with listless flags. The
cobblestone and tin,the sudden echo from the chain-link
stores
diffuse the view once opulent and vast.
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