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Rose-breasted grosbeak, feeder visitor,
it’s mother’s day and I’m marrying and adopting
in one giant late-middle-age swoop.
Can your male spring plumage top that?
Yours is a rare beauty, rarely
Ellen Foos
Ellen Foos is a senior production editor for Princeton University Press. She is the founder and publisher of Ragged Sky Press and was the recipient of a fellowship to the MacDowell Colony and the Verm
A Friend Embraces Butoh
Distant, ashy, close to the edge,
I might lose you in the pauses.
Faded by the spotlight,
disguised in white paint.
Misshapen, lost to certainty,
you focus on the expanse
between touch and