Sneak Peak - The Best American Poetry 2008

Men

     There are also men in the world.  Sometimes we forget, and think thare are only women -- endless hills and plains of unresisting women.  We make little jokes and comfort each other and our lives pass quickly.  But every now and then, it is true, a man rises unexpectedly in our midst like a pine tree, and looks savagely at us, and sends us hobbling away in great floods to hide in the caves and gullies until he is gone.

                                                  -- by Lydia Davis
                                                      from  32 Poems

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[DL]

Wondrous concision: a D. H. Lawrence novel in four declarative sentences.