“Our Favorite Turtletopper” and “Half-Orphaned at Year’s End” by Elizabeth Savage

"Our Favorite Turtletopper"

My Marianne Moore t-shirt
left halfway across the globe
      & 2/5ths south
returned today, dark gray 
& folded—one more thing
I didn’t need that love 
& luck gave back to me

"Half-Orphaned at Year’s End"

Like a parade of glass 
coaches filled with buttons
freed from their fastenings
	leaving an opening
but see how they roll

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