A U G U S T 1 9 9 8 ![]() WHEN YOU TELL MEby Laurie Lamon | |||||||||||||
![]() (For help, see a note about the audio.) Also by Laurie Lamon: Potato (2000)
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When you tell me I should keep the house and furniture, the air inside the car is like the breath a woman holds, breaking eggs against a bowl or listening for the sound of shoes in the bedroom, the closet door closing where her husband has just stood, choosing a tie. Laurie Lamon is an assistant professor of English at Whitworth College, in Spokane, Washington. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, Poetry Northwest, and Primavera. Copyright © 1998 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; August 1998; When You Tell Me; Volume 282, No. 2; page 86. |
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