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Poets Who Thrum

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Poets who thrum jirble and thwack Poets who thrum eat quorn with raw swamms Poets who thrum are eristic (not shambolic) Poets who thrum deliciate unto kench when they freck

Proverbs of the Converted

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a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single ticket

Antediluvian

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When the water came crashing

Blackish by Reason of the Ice

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"Sara, do you taketh it with your eyes?"

Ecstasy

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the eye can bloom further and must

Today It Rains

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I chose coming away because here at least I feel good — and it makes me feel I am growing very tall and straight inside — and very still — Maybe you will not love me for it — but for me it seems to be the best…

Ecstasy

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the eye can bloom further and must

The Agreement

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Our Irish tradition is rich in Yeats, drenched in Bushmills.

Paint my face Yemeni

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Paint my face Yemeni, my neck South Sudanese, my torso Syrian, Jordanian and Palestinian

What have we done to each other

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The Thing on the Stair

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Autumn brings It

Blood Brother

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Treasonous brother

A Shadow on the Summer Sun

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Shadows are so admirable in film noir less so on x-rays and mammograms

Beneath the Rise and Murmur of Your Voice

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Beneath the rise and murmur of your voicethere lies a hush more rapid than the silence meets within your eyes; the ghosts of cloudfall also meet them there. Your tongue has murmurs more than I can hear just now, for here my ears are met with something…

Fatuous Dialogue #1

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—Was it true, what you wrote in that poem? —Pretty true. —What do you mean “pretty true”? Was it true or wasn’t it? —It was as close as you get to truth in poems.