
David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly
The New Yorker: Poetry
The Eye in the Falls
This poem has every pronoun in it that you'd ever want. It's a very social poem, though it seems to be so intimate, so whispered. Even if we were to go to Niagara Falls by ourselves, we're still with all the others there. That announcement of the first person singular at the very end is kind of a surprise.
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