From The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997, ed. by Harold Bloom, series editor, David Lehman. Another fellow Ohioan. More here and here:
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from The Warmth of Hot Chocolate / by Thylias Moss b. 1954
I showed him where my wings had been recently trimmed.