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In "Requests for Toy Piano," Tony Hoagland weaves intricate themes of nature and human emotion. Through playful imagery of ducks diving into a cold river and the poignant relationships of people facing inner turmoil, the collection examines the delicate balance of joy and suffering. Hoagland's poems explore identity, longing, and the burdens of love, touching on societal issues with a keen awareness. Each piece invites reflection on our connections to each other and the natural world, capturing the essence of hope amidst the chaos of life.
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Requests for Toy Piano By Tony Hoagland
Play the one about the of ducks
where the ducks go down to the river
and one of them !thinks! the water will be cold
but then they in anyways jump and like it and splash around.
Row 14 from Palestine in nervous man about the the one play I must No,
in which in his lap a gun brown bag is hidden in a sandwich with a
Play the one about the handsome man and woman
standing on the sTePs of her apartment and how and her perfume the darkness of their hearts and thebeating
conjoin to make them feel like leaping from the edge of chance.
No, I should play the one about the hard rectangle of the credit card back pocket hidden in the man’s
and how the woman spent an hour plucking out her brows,
and how her perfume was made from the destruction of a hundred flowers.
Then Play the one about the flower industry
in which the migrant workers curse their own infected hands
from tossing sheaves of roses and carnations into the back of the refrigerated trucks
No, I MUST play the one about the daffodil single yellow
my kitchen table standing on upward whose cut stem draws the water
so the plant is flushed with the conviction
that the water has been sent to find and raise it up
from somewhere so deep inside the earth not even flowers can remember.
