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Poems

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  • Letter to a Cyclist and Early Spring

    The cyclist who’s rushing for the usual gold

  • WINDOWS (after Baudelaire)

    You never see as much in an open window as you will looking at it when it’s closed. 

  • Barrage Balloons, Buck Alec, Bird Flu and You

    First there is the weeping one weeps when one reads a good poem,

  • Pitty-Pat

    Oleander to the death of horses

  • Morning Hunger

    Why not in the icy clarity of morning,

  • December, First Frost

    A small green house sits beside the highway, fading into maple shade.

  • The Poets

    They are farmers, really--

  • Movie and Two Little Miners

    When I was ten    they took me into a coal mine

  • Riddle

    The chair is not far from the bed

  • Oxygen & Waking to 1939, I Study Those Standing

    I’m sorry my mother got a blood clot in her lung

  • Ode to Cabeza de Vaca

    What good is it to see for miles and miles,

  • Our Bodies Ourselves

    No one would sit by Vicky Syme