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The Fork
in the Moment

by Chase Twichell

Sometimes a sentence has to go forth
into the world like an eldest child
and be the first one, the only kid in the class
who knows all about sex
and has to live with the secret knowledge,
knowledge like the first fizz out of the soda bottle.

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Poem of the WeekChase  Twichell

Chase Twichell is the author of six books of poetry, including The Snow Watcher, winner of the 1997 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. After teaching for many years at Warren Wilson College, the University of Alabama, and Princeton, among other schools, she founded Ausable Press, a publisher of contemporary poetry. Twichell lives in upstate New York with her husband, the novelist Russell Banks.

Poems of the Week: 2009-2010

Poems of the Week: 2009-2010


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