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A revisiting of rhyme after reading some of Stanley Kunitz Collected Poems.
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Rigid
rows where the green meets cement,
a crew cut held upright by that waxy sticky stuff.Perfectly manicured in this moment of..
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Everyone
is born
with
a song inside,
an
incredible
chart-topping
hit
borne
on the wind
of
its perfect rhythm, ..
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Out here on
our knees, smallest branches
from the
elm lie broken
like
our fingernails.
Spring&..
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haiku of 575
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Twelve
steps to the church
front
door, forty geese
assemble
for the reading
of
the will; none will
persevere
wh..
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The
airplane
dropped
precipitously,
suddenly,
no
warning,
from
captain,
from
crew
who
flew
strapped
in,
from
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The
sweetness of a cherry pie,
odors
of cooling oatmeal cookies grind
in
his gut, the stench of fresh manure
subside..
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At
age six, Mother Mary was filled
with
grace; at twenty-six, she's
filled
with s**t. Twenty shots that
missed,
..
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In
days after there is magic,
there
is sadness and regrets,
relief
that the Sphinx survived
the
Nazi bombardment with ..
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