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barbara g. fleischmann. and mutual of america, designing customized and group retirement products.hat's why we're your retirement company. >> garrison keillor: c.d. wright was born in mountain home, arkansas in the ozarks, went to college in arkansas and memphis, and lives now in rhode island. her books of poetry include one inspired by visits to louisiana state prisons. she once said, "poetry is a necessity of life. it is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free and declare them so." >> lake echo, dear. is the woman in the pool of light really reading, or just staring at what is written? is the man walking in the soft rain naked, or is it the rain that makes his shirt transparent? the boy in the iron cot, is he asleep, or still fingering the springs underneath? did you honestly believe three lives could be complete? the bottle of green liquid on the sill, is it real? the bottle on the peeling sill, is it filled with green, or is the liquid an illusion of fullness? how summer's children turn into fish and rain softens men. how the elements of summer n

barbara g. fleischmann. and mutual of america, designing customized and group retirement products.hat's why we're your retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. garrison keillor: after serving in the united states navy, galway kinnell was a field worker in the south during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. he's been a macarthur fellow, the state poet of vermont, and a winner of the pulitzer prize and the national book award. "a poem expresses one's most private feelings," he says, "and these turn out to be the feelings of everyone else as well." for i can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober irishman, and fergus will only sink deeper into his dreamless sleep, which goes by all in one flash. but let there be that heavy breathing or a stifled come cry anywhere in the house and he will wrench himself awake and make for it on the run. as now, we lie together, after making love, quiet, touching along the length of our bodies, familiar touch of the long-married, and he appears in his baseball pajamas, it happens,