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Karen Steinmetz

Karen Steinmetz

Karen Steinmetz lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband Donald with whom she has two grown children, Andrew and Kate. Her poems have appeared in Coal Hill Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Poet Lore, among other journals, and in the anthologies, Still Against War and SAW II.

Partita

—for my father
A chord, sometimes just a note,
Will bring you. I see you then
Nodding in the chapel of the ear.

Once, twice you listened to me
(and I was not playing) as if
Each note unfolded space.

It is about to rain. Cool has dropped
Into the August night.
I lower bamboo shades on the porch.

They knock as we talk inside
A honeyed frame.
I keep with me this envelope of light.

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