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Samuel Menashe's selected poems, edited by Christopher Ricks, are to be published in October 2005 by the Library of America.

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Heat Wave
by Samuel Menashe

Sheets entangle him
Naked on his bed
Like a toppled mast
Slack sails bedeck
At sea, no ballast
For that even keel
He cannot keep—
No steering wheel
As he falls asleep

 
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