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Kathryn Starbuck is the editor of George Starbuck's poems Visible Ink (2002) and The Works: Poems Selected from Five Decades (2003), both from the University of Alabama Press. Her first collection of poems is Griefmania, which is in search of a publisher.

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Undone Song at Neap Tide
by Kathryn Starbuck

When the sun and moon were in quadrature, when
the garden had become a wilderness and the clock refused to strike

When the old year died and the sand walked into
the sea with the neap tide

When you had been too long away and your old snowblue footprints
clotted and hesitated in the clay

When the worry of this undone song unsung so long
so loud my head I went inside and under to let the flood run free

 
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