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Because
Craig Cotter

We were driving
unpopulated New Mexico

no people that is
going north

or some other direction
summer, blue sky

your poetry
taking us

when “Because” came on
from Abbey Road.

We were driving west
or some other direction

their voices dilating
New Mexico.

You sat beside me
as my CRX flew east

or some other direction
more perfect

than snipping basil
on the poached egg

because we weren’t alone.


—for Diane Wakoski
—see Diane’s great poem “Breakfast”

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Craig Cotter was born in 1960 in New York and has lived in California since 1986. His poems have appeared in Southword (Ireland), Chiron Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, The Gay & Lesbian Review, Great Lakes Review, Hawai’i Review, & Tampa Review. His fourth book of poems is After Lunch with Frank O’Hara.

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