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Yellowstone, 1985Beast surfacing, the geyser blows / sea-spume that sudden, broaching, slows / to blue, then falls, no prim fountain
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Oct 24, 2012
To the House on Winter StreetAn auction just last month -- no sale, I guess, / for now a square of white on your window says: / "Building Condemned, Order of the City..."
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Sep 3, 2012
Cads Who DreamLove's a loaded craps game, played / by crappy people, lads who dream / a sweet and willing cavalcade
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Sep 3, 2012
Work DetailHer job's detecting errors God has made / Designing Summer Street: this busted curb, / These tattered feathers, wrappers, dented cans.
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Feb 6, 2012
Night HungerWhat hunger drives us out and back / and walking, walking, free of men, / unquenched enough to taste the lack
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Nov 14, 2011
Modern Love 2.0 (10-word poem X 10)1 / Congratulations / on your maturation:
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Nov 11, 2011
In Autumn RiverbedThis world's a story / filled with stones: those five / smooth ones; some temple
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Nov 2, 2011
Photograph of My Father and Ranch Wagon, 1954Ford and man aim stiffly toward the frame, / Ranch Wagon north, my father somewhere south -- / But who can picture either one of them?
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Oct 23, 2011
Whipple Street Grade Crossing, 11:07 p.m.I wonder what she thinks they'll learn tonight / From two blocks off, from lonesome hoot, mad shriek / And metal moan, this blinking ruby eye?
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Oct 21, 2011
To Penelope, Ithaca*-- Wish You Were Here* -- standard postcard greeting / *-- Poems aren't postcards to send home* -- Anne Sexton / Dear friends, dear friends at home, resent
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Sep 10, 2011
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