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Why do men test women they love? Is it fear or insecurity. If we are all honest, we all have moments where we are so in love that we cannot imagine our lives without that person. A man sometimes checks to see if you're the one, sometimes without his knowledge.
The short poems that make up Buck Downss new collection NICE NOSE inhabit the quotidian world, the day-to-day realities right underneath our proverbial nose. Yet their flames escape being smothered by the bric-a-brac that surrounds that common hearth.