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Emotions
Emotions - Karen McCarthy Woolf
Emotions
We can’t omit
them. Tone
of voice is a stone
in motion.
The moon’s
a mint-
white note
to self.
Mine
weigh a ton
most
of the time.
from An Aviary of Small Birds (Carcanet, 2014), © Karen McCarthy Woolf 2014, used by permission of the author and publisher.