Jane Miller’s poetry volumes include Midnights, a collaboration with the artist Beverly Pepper; A Palace of Pearls; and Thunderbird (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), a book-length collection of short poems. On the faculty of the creative writing program at the University of Arizona, she lives in Tucson and is at work on Seven Mediterraneans, a fanciful memoir.

Two Poems

by Jane Miller

4.

Do you know how long it has been since a moral

choice presented itself

and the wrong choice was made
not two minutes
why is it not quiet between lightning and thunder

as if someone were asking

do you have other articulable feelings if so express

them now

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