Poems

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  • The Recognizable |  Poem Beginning with a Line by C. Dale Young

    Like when an irresistible force
  • Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another

    meeting for grown-ups, i hurry across campus,
  • The Living and the Dead | Arrest Warrant

    I already came here several times this year, aside from the pilgrimage
  • What God Says | Creek

    What you don’t know is that when you lay
  • What is Pleasure

    The supreme pleasure of love
  • The Easy Way to Stop Drinking

    We are as flies in a pitcher plant,
  • 1945

    The winter trees offer no shade no shelter.
  • In the Vanguard

    It takes a few notes, a very few notes, to undo the bare bones of a person. Where formerly we were piecework in a
  • Evening

    The blue chair on the terrace, coffee, evening,
  • from Nothing in the Dark

    My mother would assuage my childhood night-fears by saying There's nothing in the dark that you can't see during
  • Tool & Die

    In the final unburdening, massive crates are moved
  • A Snow Woman

    A window on a side yard in winter.