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Long For This World
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Publisher Price: $17.99
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Published: Sep 25 2026
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
None of us is long for this world, the saying goes, so we may as well live with a due sense of wonder. In this collection of poems, to long for this world is to be open to the unexpected, like a turtle on a runway or angel on a beach at night. The three magi cross the desert, following a star, and one of them is a fly queen wearing pearls. A mother offers hard and daring advice, and a fancy neighbor keeps a pet raccoon. The speaker in these poems has enjoyed intimate desire as well as grief and loss, and when she witnesses a solar eclipse, filled with awe, comes to this conclusion: we are full and hollow/and vacant at last, / just as we all suspected.
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