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  • Don’t Bum Out the Musicians

    At St. Paul’s church, the musicians have heard it all.

  • A Date With an Undertaker

    He liked to bathe, dress,

  • Soup Teachers

    we called them, the women who stood behind

  • A Fable: The Floss-Silk Tree and the Philodendron

    In Brazil they call the floss-silk  palo borracho

  • Late in October

    Late in October, I watch

  • It’s Not Just Trains

    The ticket office was closing

  • Pitty-Pat

    Oleander to the death of horses

  • Don’t Pick the Cherries Yet

    Don’t pick the cherries yet—

  • Widow

    You cannot consider yourself a widow just because the full moon has gone

  • Leave It Lay Where Jesus Flung It

    What a colossal wrong fall she took—that mastodon caught

  • And

    And

  • The Hardworking Man

    On the island where I grew up, the hardworking man is the ideal man.  The