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Title: Human relationships and the symbiosis of body and spirit
Review: The poetry of Peggy Penn focuses on human relationships and the symbiosis of body and spirit. An impressive and accomplished poet, So Close is Penn's debut anthology and will well serve to introduce her special style and poetic abilities to an appreciative reading public. Drought: The week you leave, the drought is record high:/water lilies crawl to shore, gagging/on the pale mud, their luminous centers/closed. Black pansies crisp in this fire:/I think of snow and close the windows./Opposites attract, as we did. I weigh/my bosoms in my hands, and even they/seem stale balloons. Perhaps constancy/is too hard to bear, or age prepares/us badly for surprise. Or, in the hot/doubt of rage, love dries; folds its tent against/the storm and womb-like waits for it to pass./Why are you surprised? This is how we last.
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