Breakfast with Thom Gunn (Phoenix Poets)
by Randall Mann
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AubadeThose who lack a talent for love have cometo walk the long Pier 7. Here at the endof the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow redof a pilot's boat; the groanof a fisherman hacking a small shark- and our speech like the icy water, a poortranslation that will not carry us across.What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feedonly on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gTags
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Randall Mann was born in Provo, Utah, and raised in Kentucky and Florida. He was educated at the University of Florida. His poems and reviews have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New Republic, Paris Review, Poetry, Salmagundi, and Verse. He lives in San Francisco.
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