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In the Wallace Stevens tradition
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I
can't write about digging for potatoes.
I'm
not Irish, and besides, that
was
father's generation. All I can write ..
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Based on the news
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Black
man white wrapped
dropped dead into the sea,
captain
and the crew salute;
a
nation never knew him.
Black
man w..
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I
should have brought him home
and
given him a proper place
to
rest, maybe beneath the ivy
that
grows up the fen..
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Hello,
Padre. I would
invite
you in, but I
can’t
stay. Yes. I’m sorry
but
I have to go. Before
y..
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Neon
flashing sidewalks.
Lawns
made of rocks.
Arching
water flying skyward.
Clanging
coins, clanging lives.
Women,
hard as the..
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Note: Published by Grand Little Things. 6-16-23
T.S. Eliot who wrote that the poet only has the to imagine emotions, that he does not have to have ex..
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I
just read about a video of a superior being
being
eaten by a shark while some other
superior
being filmed it instead of helpi..
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Who is this howling that rousesfrom my slumber, a thief that comesin the wee dawn hourswith thunderous
claps that shake shinglesand dares
to topple..
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