Poetry Foundation
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The Poetry Foundation works to amplify poetry & celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience & share poetry. Publisher of @PoetryMagazine
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Nothing waters the bole,
the stone wastes nothing.
Speech could not cobble the swamp,
And so you dance for a brighter silence.
—Paul Auster (1947–2024)
'Spokes' was published in the March 1972 issue of POETRY magazine bit.ly/4b3f9sH