Poems
By sean mcnulty
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The Treetops
The treetops never wait for you And fields are incorrigible when You finally notice them That’s when they call you ‘Featherbrain’ After when the...
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Marshes
Take it easy wind wind You’re blowing echoes of Hannah’s boots in the mud The words we used for love were dust Blackened in these fields by whispered...
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The Storm Of A Thousand Years
Cultural differences notwithstanding We’re good at standing in the rain Eating chicken on a stick together and Laughing when a joke transmogrifies...
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Lunar New Year Evening
After untold glasses of baijiu , the emphatic ganbei s, and gift of a blood-red envelope – licked I guessed by golden dragons and issued by high...
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Winter Poem 19
Eighteen winter poems ago, Snow. I admit now to lying however. What winter poem would sell without that sort of weather. Here now at ten and nine, No...
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Bibi Andersson
Started writing this following Bibi Andersson's death last year. It's a late eulogy.
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Hot Dry Noodles
I know a woman who killed her teacher In the revolution And who cooks up The finest noodles – and easily the spiciest – In the mortal arts. Oh...
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At The East Lake Where I'm Often Drunk, Thoroughly
Make a run for cherry blossom season once all the books are closed Tourists on campus marvel at bubblegum webs while military drills Ring out in the...
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And last of all, the hamper
Kenneth takes the hamper after all; it’s worth the whole year and more, the last hamper of them all, full of mince pies and truffle spread and little...
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And Still Inside They Live And Die
A rhyming poem I wrote some years ago to perform at a friend's wedding.
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