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TOD HOWARD HAWKS
Poems
Jun 2019
TO A YOUNG MAN IN KALININ SQUARE
What scares you?
That I might breathe the air,
gaze at a flower,
lie on the grass?
What frightens you?
That I might speak to a child,
hug an old man,
admire a young woman?
Why are you so full of fear?
That I might consider kindness,
think of goodness,
remember love?
Copyright Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
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TOD HOWARD HAWKS
81/M/Boulder, CO
(81/M/Boulder, CO)
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