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Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind

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“The past is a bucket of ashes.”             1 THE WOMAN named To-morrowsits with a hairpin in her teethand takes her timeand does her hair the way she wants itand fastens…

Troths

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Yellow dust on a bumble     bee’s wing,Grey lights in a woman’s     asking eyes,Red ruins in the changing     sunset embers:I take you and pile high     the memories.Death will break her claws    …

North Atlantic

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WHEN the sea is everywherefrom horizon to horizon ..  when the salt and blue  fill a circle of horizons ..I swear again how I knowthe sea is older than anything elseand the…

Moonset

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LEAVES of poplars pick Japanese prints against the west.Moon sand on the canal doubles the changing pictures.      The moon’s good-by ends pictures.The west is empty. All else is empty. No moon-talk…

Chicago Poet

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I SALUTED a nobody.I saw him in a looking-glass.He smiled-so did I.He crumpled the skin on his forehead,  frowning-so did I.Everything I did he did.I said, “Hello, I know you.”And I…

Yes, the Dead Speak to Us

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YES, the Dead speak to us.This town belongs to the Dead, to the Dead and to the Wilderness.  Back of the clamps on a fireproof door they hold the papers of…

Sleepyheads

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SLEEP is a maker of makers. Birds sleep. Feet cling to a perch. Look at the balance. Let the legs loosen, the backbone untwist, the head go heavy over, the…

To Beachey, 1912

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Riding against the east,A veering, steady shadowPurrs the motor-callOf the man-birdReady with the death-laughterIn his throatAnd in his heart alwaysThe love of the big blue beyond. Only a man,A far…

Aztec

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You came from the AztecsWith a copper on your fore-armsTawnier than a sunsetSaying good-by to an even river. And I said, you remember,Those fore-arms of yoursWere finer than bronzesAnd you…

Humdrum

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IF I had a million lives to live    and a million deaths to die    in a million humdrum worlds,I’d like to change my name    and have a new house number to go by    each…