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Daniel Nester: Pay-Per-View Étude

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

When we see old actors play roles past their prime,
why do we not swell with the sunrise of pity?
Perhaps we pick out terrible infants hidden
beneath their vivid fitted suits. Time’s gracious wooden stakes
could straighten them, like tomato branches

stretching for the sun. Or think of Monet, his
late-life flowers. Fingering our own crow’s feet,
it’s assumed we meet them halfway, add import
to dry and score-bright words. We might even think
of our own lives — their obvious, profiled arcs.

Filed Under: Contributors 67, Issue 66, Poetry, Poetry 67 Tagged With: Contributors 67, Daniel Nester, Poetry, Poetry 67

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