Maurice Manning

Maurice Manning’s most recent book is Railsplitter. He lives with his family in Kentucky.

The Latch
One sound, the click of the latch on the gate,
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The Romantic Poets
If anybody needs a head
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After Reading Charles Wright I Turn Out the Light and Listen to the Rain
Protestant American darkness
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Licks
We each were given three licks
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Mr. Blake’s Skin Don’t Dirt
Because the vanishing point hovers
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Sleep
There is a room, and inside the room
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The Gone and the Going Away
The world I know keeps going farther
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The Latch