toughs / in a huddle, barbarians before a hunt

[ke_rose_ne]

Savages
Dorianne Laux

Those two shelves, down there.
                                         - Adrienne Rich

For Matthew, Mike, Michael and Carl

They buy poetry like gang members
buy guns -- for aperture, caliber,
heft and defense. They sit on the floor
in the stacks, thumbing through Keats
and Plath, Levine and Olds, four

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