Kary Wayson is the author of the poetry collection American Husband, which received the Journal Award in 2009 from the Ohio State University Press, and the chapbook Dog & Me. In addition, her work has been included in The Best American Poetry 2007 and the 2010 Pushcart Prize anthology. Wayson lives and works in Seattle.

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Five Poems

by Kary Wayson

Arms plural, legs plural

so sweater and pantholes plural. Not so
the tree hung by the swing, not so the thing
divided from the thinking. No, not so, nor yes: I’m a guest,
an ex of a friend of the waiter, sitting astride
a girl-shaped bell, tremendous, and about-to-be bringing.
Eyes plural, ears plural, so the seen and heard
the plural of plural. She who loves a lack gets fat on gas.
A thing makes a thought and a singing—

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