“I Used To” by Chocolate Waters

Bigger Than They AppearI Used To

make love.
Now I
make coffee.

Chocolate Waters

“What a cache of treasures this collection is, what a cache of jewels. […] All are reminders of what the best, briefest poems can do: give back the world to us, as it passes, in the mirror of a few well-chosen words.”

-Cecilia Woloch

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Chocolate Waters lives and writes in Manhattan. Her latest collection, the woman who wouldn’t shake hands is now available from Poets Wear Prada.

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