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At North Farm

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you?…

4 tygodnie temu

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Forgotten Sex

They tore down the old movie palaces, Ripped up streetcar tracks, widened avenues. Lampposts, curbs with their trees vanished. They knew, who came after, A story of departing hands and affairs, that mostly Went untold, unless someone who was there once…

4 tygodnie temu

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A Tone Poem

It is no longer night. But there is a sameness Of intention, all the same, in the ways We address it, rude Color of what an amazing world, As it goes flat, or rubs off, and this Is a marvel, we think, and are careful not to go past it.…

4 tygodnie temu

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Meaningful Love

What the bad news was became apparent too late for us to do anything good about it. I was offered no urgent dreaming, didn’t need a name or anything. Everything was taken care of. In the medium-size city of my awareness voles are building colossi. The blue room is over there.…

4 tygodnie temu

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Some Trees

These are amazing: each Joining a neighbor, as though speech Were a still performance. Arranging by chance To meet as far this morning From the world as agreeing With it, you and I Are suddenly what the trees try…

4 tygodnie temu

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The Improvement

Is that where it happens? Only yesterday when I came back, I had this diaphanous disaffection for this room, for spaces, for the whole sky and whatever lies beyond. I felt the eggplant, then the rhubarb. Nothing seems strong enough for this life to manage, that sees beyond…

4 tygodnie temu

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The New Higher

You meant more than life to me. I lived through you not knowing, not knowing I was living. I learned that you called for me. I came to where you were living, up a stair. There was no one there. No one to appreciate me. The legality of it upset a chair. Many times to celebrate…

4 tygodnie temu

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