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Poetry · Volume 14, Number 2

Coffey Still

Barbara Duffey

I relish the peavine summer with its

new mouse muzzles and rabbits in the grass,

its whiskey in the mist of a warming

morning rank with the thick world, pink roses

pricked red, and the rest that will outlast us.

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Barbara Duffey

Barbara Duffey is the author of two poetry collections, Simple Machines (The Word Works, 2016), winner of the 2015 Washington Prize, and I Might Be Mistaken (Word Poetry, 2015). Her work has appeared in The Cincinnati Review , Prairie Schooner , Western Humanities Review , and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry. She is an associate professor of English at Dakota Wesleyan University. Photo by Barbara Duffey