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Kathleen Peirce
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Kathleen Peirce teaches poetry in the M.F.A. program at Texas State University. Her work has been awarded by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Whiting Foundation. Her most recent collection, The Ardors, is available through Copper Canyon Press.
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Anima Forma Corporis
—Aquinas
In a November of false weather, overwarm,
green shoots showed
and she could not see them,
wrapped as she was,
indoors, in a cranberry sweater, tan slacks,
eighty-eight years, though these fall loose
in recognition now, and away
in increments even the closest view would
not catch, not make clear.
As with the out-movement of a leaf
one would like to have seen happening, one would;
too late. The body has arrived.
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