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Animal Spirits, Dogfish Head Poetry Prize, Faith Shearin, Monk Books, Orpheus Turning, Poetry magazine, Possums, Tom Healy
For an urban-ish area, we sure have a lot of wildlife. Last night, there were not one, but two full-size possums making the rounds. They were no doubt a couple, perhaps already having reproduced…let’s hope under someone else’s hedge. In honor of this rather unpleasant nocturnal visit (no, they did not even bother playing dead), I present two poems from Poetry magazine with very different takes on encountering the beasts.
POSSUM IN THE GARBAGE

latest collection Orpheus, Turning(2015)
A POSSUM ENTERING THE ARGUMENT
by Tom Healy
it was likely I’d be

latest collection: Animal Spirits (2009)