January 2011
Field Guide
a new poem
by Tracy K. Smith
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You were you, but now and then you’d change. Sometimes your face was some or another his, And when I stood facing it, your body flinched. You wanted to be alone—left alone.You waded Into streets dense with people: women wearing Book bags, or wooden beads. Girls holding smoke A moment behind red mouths then pushing it out, Posing, not breathing it in. You smiled Like a man who knows how to crack a safe. |
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