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Bald Eagle

by Connie Wanek

Your image is on my credit card,
you and the old red, white, and blue.
Each purchase receives your scrutiny
if not approbation: yes,
I should buy less chocolate and more fish.

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Poem of the WeekConnie Wanek

Connie Wanek has written three books of poems: On Speaking Terms (Copper Canyon Press, 2010); Bonfire; and Hartley Field. As an editor of the anthology To Sing along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Days to the Present, she received several awards. In 2006 Poet Laureate Ted Kooser named her Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress. Wanek lives in Duluth, Minnesota.


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Poems of the Week: 2009-2010

Poems of the Week: 2009-2010

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