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“I’m not anyone more / than anyone else. / I did my job, then / looked into / their eyes. / What had I / become?”

So reads “Sixth Juror,” one of a cycle of 13 short poems titled “Twelve Chairs” (one poem each for 12 jurors and an alternate), included in former poet laureate Rita Dove’s 2004 collection “American Smooth.” Dove’s juror poems don’t just live on the pages of her book. Because they were commissioned as part of a collaboration with artist Larry Kirkland, they are also inscribed on 12 marble chairs, representing members of a jury, that stand as part of an installation in the rotunda of the Robert T. Matsui US Courthouse in Sacramento, California. The sight of another of Dove’s chiseled verses…