Weekly Poem: 'Contracted'

**By Marie Ponsot** Here comes her helpmeet                                    at a trot. He's a dealer in defeat;                                    she is not. Woe's what he's here for,                                    not so, she, proud of her bookstore                                    at the mall. No pride could look more                                    like a fall.   "Marie Ponsot":http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5453 has published several books of poems, including most recently, "Easy" (2009), "Springing" (2002) and "The Bird Catcher" (1998), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Look for an upcoming profile on Ponsot on the NewsHour.