Moore in Rae Armantrout
than Elizabeth Bishop
more HD than Denise Levertov
more Plath than Rich
more Emily than Walt
and that’s because there’s
always something to learn
and one feels hurried along
to the bathroom and back
with a certain reverential calm
that settles over the whole classroom
like an extended metaphor
in an early American novel
that makes you think
of your first great thoughts
somewhere in the vicinity of hers
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