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<p>If your home were a museum — and they all are, in a way — what would the contents of your refrigerator say about you and those you live with? In his poem “Refrigerator, 1957,” Thomas Lux opens the door to his childhood appliance and oh, does a three-quarters full jar of maraschino cherries speak volumes. </p><p>Thomas Lux was an American poet and professor. He was the author of several collections of poetry, including <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/thomas-lux-refrigerator-1957/#media"><i>To the Left of Time</i></a> (Ecco, 2016), <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/thomas-lux-refrigerator-1957/#media"><i>Child Made of Sand</i></a><i> </i>(Houghton Mifflin, 2012), <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/thomas-lux-refrigerator-1957/#media"><i>God Particles</i></a> (Houghton Mifflin, 2008), and <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/thomas-lux-refrigerator-1957/#media"><i>New and Selected Poems of Thomas Lux: 1975-1995</i></a> (Ecco Press, 1999). Lux taught for many years at the ...