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Article: Canterbury Tale.(Poem)
- Article from:
- The Southern Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
- Author:
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Canterbury Tale
The flowers she buys at the grocery
spray from a jam jar, though we
can afford crystal now.
When in April, twenty years ago,
on a campus sidewalk, stopped
by a glance of sunlight on a bell tower,
she exclaimed, "How like this is
to Canterbury"--but pronounced it
canta-bree--I, Georgia cracker, frustrated
Anglo-, Italo-, Francophile,
was stunned, struck down by love, like
Dante by Beatrice, by her whiff
of cucumber sandwiches and tea cakes,
her skin like gold museum ...
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... ... his whoop upon finding a pounds 2 coin, and I crept in to watch his delight. What I actually saw was Adam taking out an old jam jar and adding his new coin to a huge pile of money. Ignoring his objections I investigated and tipped out an assortment of 50 ...
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