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Today's poem is by Rae Armantrout

Solution

A solution is found
when creatures
from the last ice age
band together
to survive.


Circumstances spin
like the mobile
above a baby crib.


Follow along
with an endearing
first person,


a penguin.


You won't get far.


You're the thing
that waits


to trap
each passing thought,


the anxious
blank
that God loves.



Copyright © 2008 Rae Armantrout All rights reserved
from Columbia Poetry Review
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission

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