TV gunning down the hours serves as sheriff in a room where one yawn triggers off another, sends time scuffling into night. Wars slugged out on vacant lots sign an armistice with sleep. Turned to a wall, the children dream and the moon pulls up in a squad car.
—Colette Inez
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From The Woman Who Loved Worms, 1991.
Carnegie Mellon University Press.
Copyright © 1972, 1991 by Colette Inez. Used by permission of the author.
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Colette Inez
Colette Inez (1931-2018) published 10 poetry collections, including The Woman Who Loved Worms (Doubleday, 1972), and a memoir, The Secret of M. Dulong (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005). Her papers can now be accessed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.