The Iowa Review
Volume 23
Issue 3 Fall
1993
Cowardice
Janet Piper
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Article 26
Poems
Three
Janet
Piper
Cowardice
The
has been
pattern
Fear and flight
At the first sight
Of theUgly or Evil.
I have been no comfort
Not
In trouble, to anyone?
even my son?
The
For which
The
unforgivable
no
sin,
tears atone;
burden
of age,
Which no prayers lighten
Or
East
assuage.
Texas
Wild
Life
I
Roaches I dislike
Of
For the arrogance
their stance,
I suspect
From fear and respect
For their power of endurance.
But more,
say
Entomologists
are not as old
They
As the earth, but nearly,
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