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  Ken Pobo
   
      GLASS AND OAK
 
From the road the store
looks ramshackle.  What
could be in there?  Only joy.
Bliss.  Dark amber light.
My grandmother, dead
fifteen years, waves
from the rim of a blue
Fenton plate.  And that ruby
pitcher with six tall glasses!
We box up beauty
in the back seat for tomorrow's
300-mile trip home, leave
the store, go for a walk
in Ohiopyle State Park-
oaks drop glass leaves,
yet not one breaks.

 



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