Poetry
By nicola6
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The Benefits of Train Travel
why would you allow yourself to get stranded between the land and the water when you could sit quietly in the smoking car drinking the beer someone passes
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A Visitation of Cattle in SE1
It is to you they come Just this once
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Cherries for Breakfast
Poised tense against Serrated edges of my teeth
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Meeting Myself on the London Underground in the Holiday Season
I could not say what I wanted to say The etiquette binding on my tongue Was tied too tight.
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This Is The Way We Live Now
...before the morning-after toad had time To take up position on the brain’s beam
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Malady the Sock Monkey
In his prime he was a splendid thing Played cymbals with a glancing blow Danced, sang In celebrated bands Never boastful, rarely proud A noble creature of renown
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When The Dead Drive By
When the dead drive by Clerks outside office blocks Hold cigarettes behind their backs
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The Problem Of Time And Memory Lost
I like to think of that watch still lying buried on the river bed!
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If one of you should fall from common grace
If one of you should fall from common grace And down the light-fire river plummet free The other should not hide their dismayed face Against the knotted branches of the tree
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New Jersey Neighbors
yard sales in suburbia
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Sutherland Avenue
City as plot and lyric and song
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View from New Jersey
The quick flick of a sparrow’s wing Framed by Frank Sinatra Drive
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Silver and Exact
Self Deception V. Sylvia Plath
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Zola Works At The Planetarium
Zola works at the planetarium Where numbers of people drop debris On the carpet in the dark
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Jeanie is a Secretary
Wakes at the fag end of an ordinary dream
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Strings & Kites
You said, Lie down Lie down! So I did
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Ice Gathering
record harvest of 1879
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Call Her Love
Sleep Deprived Half Dream
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Father's Day, Upstate New York 2014
Memories of mushrooming with my Dad
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