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A Poem by Vol
The
rusty old man,
shoes
covered with fallen leaves,
moves
alone toward winter.
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A Poem by Vol
The
first cigarette I ever smoked
was
after dark. A fresh, long
reject
from someone’s car with
magenta
lipstick on the filter.
I..
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A Poem by Vol
Momma
made a quilt for me
from
old dresses and rags she saved.
My
lover took it to the park that day
and
spread it in the glade.
It
was the..
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A Poem by Vol
There is a carnival in the sky
flashing light and making noise,
threatening rivers of rain to come
with lights a-spin and thunder, too.
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A Poem by Vol
I’ve
read
of
the Greeks
and, Socrates
aside,
they
were
a
weird
bunch
of
bedfellows,
but
they
knew
danger,
an..
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A Poem by Vol
The king
on the mirror,has been hung...
born
to master craftsman
and
friend knife to crown the
the
wooden frame
laughs
at our vanity
bu..
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A Poem by Vol
The
thing about that summer
was
the long walks in the isolated
back-ountry
roads of Wisconsin.
The
green tinged with blue…
The..
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A Poem by Vol
So you were kind
to that wino with
the shopping cart...
So you voted against
instead of for… So
you made hot love
to Mary J..
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A Poem by Vol
The long
road makes slow curls
around
the floor of the valley
on
its way to the highway,
a
leisurely ride past precarious
old
houses wit..
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A Poem by Vol
Have you
ever had a
dream
as big as Autumn,
and
when you wake on a cold,
November
morning,
she’s
still there?
Outside,
the..
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