today I’m stealing poems from Lisel
Mueller’s Alive Together. my copy
riddled with small book marks: six neon green
sticky flags and one hunter orange, one
receipt dated 2004 from Barnes
& Noble, and two rogue Yahtzee score sheets,
completed without dates. Thirteen pages
are dog-eared. Rare as it is, I have scrawled
marginalia alongside several poems.
I recall now that it was Lisel who
introduced me to Edward Hopper, whose
blank spaces I am still trying to fill.

dmpitchford