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Poems by Ralph Angel

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Alpine Wedding

... Each one and all of us entangled, the room is moist with us, ...

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The Local Language

... And the word she mouths to herself as she looks up from her book&mdash ...

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Breaking and Entering

... that’s history, the kind of story that tends to have an ending, ...

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Even Because

... Because the body itself—the heart'snot dead but deeper, wrapped up in curtains, a different color, ...

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In Every Direction

... nobody's ever heard before,or maybe the woman on the edge of the porch, ...

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It Takes a While to Disappear

... A well-dressed drunk smears her finger across a doorman’s lips and whispers ...

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Man in a Window

... I mean I want to dedicate my life to those who keep going just to see how it isn’t ending ...

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This

... just as pedestrians are erecting again the buildings of this drab ...

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Tidy

... slams down gently, like drizzled ...