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The Public Table

It was rumored to have been made from the tree

Of the first spinning place. Some said the side

    Of a Spanish slaver spit from the sea.

    Others church bench, chunk of stage, courthouse wall.

    A widow swore her grandfather had helped

    Drag it from his swamped fields after a storm.

    One leg longer than the others, it leaned

    Left. It belonged to no one and was ours.

    Years pressed down on it with tobacco ash, peach

    Pits, coffee rings, the impress of elbows,

    A knife-mark widened by a thousand thumbs.

    You can’t run your hand across the surface

    Without passing through three or four fables

    And a splinter that always finds the hand.

    Such a common thing in an uncommon

    World: this table, so worn down that it shines.

    There’s room here. There’s never any room here.

    It’s hard to keep clean. We all eat off it.

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