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Valley Song

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Your eyes and the valley are memories.Your eyes fire and the valley a bowl.It was here a moonrise crept over the timberline.It was here we turned the coffee cups upside…

Crimson Changes People

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DID I see a crucifix in your eyesand nails and Roman soldiersand a dusk Golgotha?  Did I see Mary, the changed woman,washing the feet of all men,clean as new grasswhen the…

Snow

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SNOW took us away from the smoke valleys into white mountains, we saw velvet blue cows eating a vermillion grass and they gave us a pink milk.  Snow changes our bones…

Man, the Man-Hunter

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I SAW Man, the man-hunter,Hunting with a torch in one handAnd a kerosene can in the other,Hunting with guns, ropes, shackles.    I listened  And the high cry rang,The high cry of Man,…

Hits and Runs

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I REMEMBER the Chillicothe ball players grappling the Rock Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness.And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against…

Chords

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IN the morning, a Sunday morning, shadows of sea and adumbrants of rock in her eyes … horseback in leather boots and leather gauntlets by the sea.  In the evening, a…

Bas-Relief

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FIVE geese deploy mysteriously.Onward proudly with flagstaffs,Hearses with silver bugles,Bushels of plum-blossoms droppingFor ten mystic web-feet-Each his own drum-major,Each charged with the honorOf the ancient goose nation,Each with a nose-length…

White Shoulders

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Your white shoulders     I rememberAnd your shrug of laughter.      Low laughter     Shaken slowFrom your white shoulders.

Three Spring Notations on Bipeds

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1THE DOWN drop of the blackbird,The wing catch of arrested flight,The stop midway and then off: off for triangles, circles, loops of new hieroglyphs-This is April’s way: a woman:“O yes,…

Baby Vamps

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BABY vamps, is it harder work than it used to be?Are the new soda parlors worse than the old time saloons?  Baby vamps, do you have jobs in the day time…