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Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including Dunce(Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and the LA Times Book Award; My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), which was the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Robert Creeley Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont, where she serves as the state's poet laureate.

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Nixie

It began with a phone number.

Then a grocery list.

A postcard to a dead friend

and then a long letter

in the green hell of a long summer.

With queer little geometrical figures

in the margins.

Then winter came with the monstrosity

of a true artist, its snow didn’t know

whether to play Bach or Beethoven,

its light in a light all its own.

I called and called. I went shopping

but the black diamonds downtown

were not on sale, so I am writing

to tell you the ring you wanted

will have to wait, we are telling

stories around the brazier, it is

warm near the tripod and snug,

the hour makes a soft music

all its own, I wish more than anything

you were here beside us, and not

under the maple in Mr. Morioka’s garden.

I used to think everything had meaning—

and it does.