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Fallen Apples
2023-12-06Wasps at work in the soft flesh of rotting apples. Food of the gods, all day they mine it in busy hushed movements. I pick up a mushy corpse one cold ...
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Failing and Flying
2023-12-06Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It's the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, ...
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Facing It
2023-12-06My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite. I said I wouldn't, dammit: No tears. I'm stone. I'm flesh. My clouded reflection eye...
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F15
2023-12-06flash card. fever down. "arépa!" as an expletive——translation=pancake. flip flop happy feet: corn is what we've got &...
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Echoes
2023-12-06Once more riding down to Venice on borrowed horses, the air free of misdemeanor, at rest in the inns of our fathers. Once again whiteness like the whi...
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Easter 1916
2023-12-06I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the hea...
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Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri
2023-12-06The quake last night was nothing personal, you told me this morning. I think one always wonders, unless, of course, something is visible: tremors that...
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Early Cutting
2023-12-06When they take the winter wheat at home all the other crops are green. In granaries and tight truck boxes farm boys are slow scoop-shovel metronomes s...
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Dawn
2023-12-06Often now as an old man Who sleeps only four hours a night, I wake before dawn, dress and go down To my study to start typing: Poems, letters, more pa...
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Daughters, 1900
2023-12-06Five daughters, in the slant light on the porch, are bickering. The eldest has come home with new truths she can hardly wait to teach. She lectures th...