Poetry
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through a hole in a wood
through a hole in a wood plank face of a tent on a fencepostbeaks wide open baby swallows two or three a band of amateur birds a choirof voices that haven’t maturedthat haven’t trained to singthey cheep cheepcheepfrom the stage that is a floorof block wood in a small house made of two one by Continue reading
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when the elector’s left dresden
when the elector’s left dresdenleft his mother sophie to answerthe lords of saxony and the emperor’s menridden one may morning out on a palfreyaccompanied by his huntsman his falconera guest or two with an escortof squires apprenticed to the knights who’ll ridecoursers and great horseswhen he arrives staysat his hunting palace at rochlitz goes out Continue reading
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with words pike pointed
with words pike pointedand spear tipped steel and sharpened and polished piercethe center of his smock let him be the oldest man the man most warped who swingsa leg stiff at the knee and unbent through the door into the kitchen who before the day’s fire’s put in the stove comes uncalled and uninvited unmet Continue reading
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warn with a boundary stone in your voice
warn with a boundary stone in your voicethat doesn’t bend that isn’t movedby how an ox of a son in the fieldfifty years ago was crippleddown to an old uncle who limpsto the servants’ door without summons uncalled his shadow stooped by all the scythes he’s swungby all the straws he’s rakedby all the bundles Continue reading
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