Whitney Jones Olson Biography

i am taken aback;
i question your strength,
your revelations;
your integrity.
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Maple Marble your fine overtones,
like Marshall Fields in Chicago
where you wrote an essay of political analogy,
and became The Pro,
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She hears the Carmina Burana behind her eyes,
the oratorio asks to be pulled from her / into text /
She breaks the law two hours after waking,
sits in linen through the afternoon / pontificates /
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The final lecture, it has concluded, with a
scathing evaluation of its fearful leader,
and I have glided easily to the fountain of Venus
who has drawn herself on all my time here,
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Saw you on a Sunday -
reading your Bible,
bought you some candy -
got cuffed to your chair.
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