poetry September 2007 Atlantic Monthly

by Robert Pinsky

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The cross the fork the zigzag—a few straight lines
For pain, quandary and evasion, the last of signs.

Robert Pinsky's new collection of poems, Gulf Music, will be published this fall. He served three terms as the United States poet laureate and currently teaches at Boston University.

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