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Fight

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Red drips from my chin where I have been eating.Not all the blood, nowhere near all, is wiped off my mouth. Clots of red mess my hairAnd the tiger, the…

Chasers

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THE SEA at its worst drives a white foam up,The same sea sometimes so easy and rocking with green mirrors.So you were there when the white foam was upAnd the…

I Sang

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I sang to you and the moonBut only the moon remembers.     I sangO reckless free-hearted          free-throated rythms,Even the moon remembers them     And is kind to me.

Near Keokuk

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THIRTY-TWO Greeks are dipping their feet in a creek.Sloshing their bare feet in a cool flow of clear water.All one midsummer day ten hours the Greeks        stand in leather shoes shoveling…

Boes

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I waited today for a freight train to pass.Cattle cars with steers butting their horns against the     bars, went by.And a half a dozen hoboes stood on bumpers between     cars.Well,…

Omaha

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RED barns and red heifers spot the greengrass circles around Omaha-the farmershaul tanks of cream and wagon loads of cheese.  Shale hogbacks across the river at CouncilBluffs-and shanties hang by an…

Joliet

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ON the one hand the steel works.On the other hand the penitentiary.Sante Fe trains and Alton trainsBetween smokestacks on the westAnd gray walls on the east.And Lockport down the river.…

A Tall Man

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THE MOUTH of this man is a gaunt strong mouth.The head of this man is a gaunt strong head. The jaws of this man are bone of the Rocky Mountains,…

Choices

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They offer you many things,     I a few.Moonlight on the play of fountains at nightWith water sparkling a drowsy monotone,Bare-shouldered, smiling women and talkAnd a cross-play of loves and adulteriesAnd…

Jungheimer’s

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In western fields of corn and northern timber lands,     They talk about me, a saloon with a soul,     The soft red lights, the long curving bar,     The leather seats and…