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The poem "Colosseum" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: I stared at the ruin, the powder of the dead; Last Line: to be abandoned.

The poem "Koi" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: After all the days and nights we've spent; Last Line: and the human, alone.

The poem "Beirut" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: Ruin is a promise; Last Line: will have to be plagues.

The poem "Seawater and Ours a Bed Above It" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: We wished that if we raked; Last Line: from even the underside of the world.

The poem "Duomo" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: There are animals of the savannah listening; Last Line: of the devastated font.

The poem "Flee" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: When the transistor said killing wind; Last Line: so save each other.

The poem "Earth, This Firelit Lantern" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: will master the heart; Last Line: You were its gods.

The poem "Divining Stick" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: There is no promise from this earth, Last Line: Where won't it be, it answers.

The poem "Earth" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: Wild horses folded into their last night. Last Line: A reckoning so slow you aren't even frightened.

The poem "Easter Evening" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: In the haze of cold April, Last Line: In this way we are told it is over.

The poem "Rose" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: Remember the great games of the arenas; Last Line: she has to shift them all the time.

The poem "Snakes" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: It is difficult to be in the museum with you now, Last Line: will abide.

The poem "Overture" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: It's grief that tears the paper lanterns; Last Line: be governed so?

The poem "Raised Voice" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: I had no craving. I heard sirens at night. Last Line: one need not even look.

The poem "Cemetery" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: In its grasses the vault-filled cemetery swayed; Last Line: it struck me across the face.

The poem "Coliseum Theater" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: The houses burn, the oil rigs burn, Last Line: Please, just let us go.

The poem "Spring Wish" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: Some mornings there was bread on the air; Last Line: warm on the string where I'd held it.

The poem "What We Get" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: I waited for a silence with its boards stripped off, Last Line: a land where everything grows, and there are many killings.

The poem "Flag" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: Some come to this ruin and raise a flag. Last Line: She used the wind.

The poem "The Singing" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: It was not sufficient to put wayward; Last Line: as I lowered into their water.

The poem "Tess" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: To return I must triple myself with governmental tissue; Last Line: instead go back to your own-

The poem "The Shape of Us" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: Perhaps our difficult loneliness; Last Line: on this earth.

The poem "Injury" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: What we had were hooks; Last Line: when you saw me you said you're here.

The poem "Earth" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: Who sees what is between us? Who sees our gestures, Last Line: it is all that is around us, you and I-

The poem "Division" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: We drove through Wyoming passing people on horseback, noon horse; Last Line: to fix it. There was no talk of ever fixing it.

The poem "Crossing America" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: Days you can't eat, days; Last Line: but never by any human wish.

The poem "The Vessel Bends the Water" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: The body begs for a system that will not break- Last Line: my hands at least touching its skin.

The poem "Snow" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: I held the chambered gun; Last Line: one of us at a time.

The poem "Tolstoy's Storm" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: I dreamt the earth was dry; Last Line: as Tolstoy did all autumn inside me.

The poem "He Said" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: that city needed a good cleaning he said; Last Line: you should have heard my buddy he said.

The poem "Vessel" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: We were hardly vessels; Last Line: from the sea.

The poem "Fish Market" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: Now the suicidal drift; Last Line: they fill their bags.

The poem "Ark" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: We love the stories of flood and the few; Last Line: whoever holds the book.

The poem "Earth" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: If you respect the dead; Last Line: there will be nowhere to walk.

The poem "Tell Us" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: the radio is coming in; Last Line: you cannot be ready.

The poem "Rarely" by Katie Ford is presented. First Line: Rarely do I remember another month, August. Last Line: make them.