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  • Morning Coffee
  • Robert Newman (bio)

I have a great deal of company in my house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

henry david thoreau, Walden

The clink of a spoon on the lip of a cupthe muddy surface rolls fertile like Nile siltwhile dust drifts and robins gossip

The kitchen air a long-held breathas a fly stutters against the windowdesperate to get on with its last day [End Page 112]

Robert Newman

Robert Newman is president and director of the National Humanities Center. He has published six books, numerous articles, reviews, and poems, and is completing another book of poems, Birds and Other Questions.

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