[New-Poetry] As the

[Anny Ballardini]

proud Editor of the Corner, I would like to address you to Tim Mayo's page,
also selected by Garrison Keillor on today's the Writer's Almanac:

http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=323

All the Women I Almost Married

by Tim Mayo<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,cxg5,dv,jrhm,i8yj,3hrs,fxvj>

They gather at the edge of a big proscenium like a Greek
chorus keening out their melodious dirges as I prepare
to read my poems to an audience of my peers. They are
not mourning me, nor themselves, instead, they mourn
all the women I did marry. Then, one of them steps up
whom I think I recognize. She lays her hands upon me
like some blind tent healer, some traveling maiden
all gussied up in a white robe who has laid her hands
for a living every night on a different man
in a different field, outside a different town,
all over the sultry summerscape of America,
and suddenly, I hear the whip-o-wills sing as though
I have been blessed by the invisible, the feathers
of something marvelous that passes only once.

"All the Women I Almost Married" by Tim Mayo, from *The Loneliness of Dogs*.
(c) Pudding House Publications, 2008. Reprinted with permission. (buy
now<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,cxg5,dv,5y22,837o,3hrs,fxvj>)



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Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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