Andrew Kaufman’s books include the Cinnamon Bay Sonnets, winner of the Center for Book Arts manuscript award; Earth’s Ends, winner of the Pearl Poetry Book Award; Both Sides of the Niger (Spuyten Duyvil Press); and The Complete Cinnamon Bay Sonnets (Rain Mountain Press). He is an NEA recipient.
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The Pounding of Hoes
The pounding of hoes — don’t you hear them?
Behind high stone walls,
unceasing, yet slow,
beyond the folds of time.
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