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Four Ways of Setting the Table

By CLARA CHIU

Photo of a long wooden table with chairs. Plants in the background

Photo courtesy of author.

Amherst, Massachusetts

I. Tablecloth Winter

We are holding the edges of the fabric,
throwing the center into the air.
& even in dusk this cloth
billowing over our heads 
makes a souvenir of home:
mother & child in snowglobe.
Yet we are warm here, beneath
this dome, & what light slips through
drapes the dining room white.

Four Ways of Setting the Table
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