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Three by Carolyn Forché, who is the only poet I'll post this month that I've actually met. She came to my university when I was an undergraduate. Here are three from In the Lateness of the World [2020]: "The Museum of Stones," "For Ilya at Tsarkoe Selo," and "Light of Sleep."

The Museum of Stones by Carolyn Forché

These are your stones, assembled in matchbox and tin,
collected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct,
battlefield, threshing floor, basilica, abattoir–
stones, loosened by tanks in the streets
from a city whose earliest map was drawn in ink on linen,
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