<dove's "fox trot fridays">
2004-05-30.1:08 a.m.


Fox Trot Fridays
Rita Dove


Thank the stars there's a day
each week to tuck in

the grief, lift your pearls, and
stride brush stride

quick-quick with a
heel-ball-toe.  Smooth

as Nat King Cole's
slow satin smile,

easy as taking
one day at a time:

one man and
one woman,

rib to rib,
with no heartbreak in sight--

just the sweep of Paradise
and the space of a song

to count all the wonders in it.



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