Five Poems

Five poems from Mary Jo Salter: “The Fortune Cookie”, “Last Words”, “So Far”, “Aloe”, and “Fruitcake”

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Mary Jo Salter is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry.