Leslie Harrison is the author of Displacement, selected for the Bakeless Prize in Poetry. She has served as Philip Roth Resident in Poetry at Bucknell University and teaches on the faculty at Towson University. She lives in Baltimore.

Charm for a Spring Storm

by Leslie Harrison

I am tamping down the earth I am patting it back

with the flat side of a blade I am burying you


with all the other dead because hydrangeas because


lilacs and tiny cinquefoil stars and when you call


and when you say you want to meet and I say yes
People on couch
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