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Guys who wear wolf shirts
sign the backs
rather than the fronts
of cheques.
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We learned to dance beneath a gazebo / in Spring Lake Park / We were fourteen
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At night they floated through my dreams / like paper dolls, whole flocks of them, / in synchronous motion, hatless / even in winter, lest they muss their hair.
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You read my poems, Not because you like them, But just to find yourself, Mentioned in them.
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no need to scour
the world for portents
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In the blue of the yard the twins boil and scrape,
twisting about beneath the sycamore tree.
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If the train moves slow and your head is full of bloodyou can look downward andsee where you came from. If your eyes have swollen and seem ready to pop forth from your skull, you can alwaysstop seeing and feel…
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Black Wheat
They left their great need behind when they were taken out of the country. They seem to live without thought of that blood. They do not respond to anything that calls to it. They seem shallow. They feed on image alone. Blood does not
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Blind Man with Brown-Eyed Girl
A blind man walking by with a good-looking girl, who sees. So she describes herself for him. “My eyes are brown, dark and wide.”
He says: “I asked the sky what it meant. Naisiusiu. You know, the sound that
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No matter how many times I brought someone home, down into the basement, after awhile there came the knocking on the door at the head of the stair: “Jerry, what are you doing down there? It’s ten o’clock already, for heaven’s sake. Dad and I are
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I found a field
where all the
unanswered prayers
were once buried
but someone
someone
someone had
dug them up
again
and was putting
them
to good use
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In the rose garden
Beneath a clump of weeds
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Oh, by the way
here’s my old phone number
548-7899
Remember?
Call me
It will ring
somewhere
in the past
We can make
amends
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spreading gilded pages with a tlickt
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