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Clean Curtains

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NEW neighbors came to the corner house at Congress and Green streets.  The look of their clean white curtains was the same as the rim of a nun’s bonnet.  One way was…

Memoir of a Proud Boy

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HE lived on the wings of storm.The ashes are in Chihuahua. Out of Ludlow and coal towns in ColoradoSprang a vengeance of Slav miners, Italians, Scots, Cornishmen, Yanks.Killings ran under…

Crucible

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Hot gold runs a winding stream on the inside of a green bowl. Yellow trickles in a fan figure, scatters a line of skirmishes, spreads a chorusof dancing girls, performs…

I Am The People, The Mob

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I am the people–the mob–the crowd–the mass.Do you know that all the great work of the world is     done through me?I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the    …

In Tall Grass

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BEES and a honeycomb in the dried head of a horse in a pasture corner-a skull in the tall grass and a buzz and a buzz of the yellow honey-hunters.…

Broken-face Gargoyles

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ALL I can give you is broken-face gargoyles.It is too early to sing and dance at funerals,Though I can whisper to you I am looking for an undertaker humming a…

Hats

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HATS, where do you belong?  what is under you?  On the rim of a skyscraper’s foreheadI looked down and saw: hats: fifty thousand hats:Swarming with a noise of bees and sheep, cattle…

Old Woman

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The owl-car clatters along, dogged by the echoFrom building and battered paving-stone.The headlight scoffs at the mist,And fixes its yellow rays in the cold slow rain;Against a pane I press…

Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs

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RUM tiddy um,    tiddy um,    tiddy um tum tum.My knees are loose-like, my feet want to sling their selves.I feel like tickling you under the chin-honey-and a-asking: Why Does a Chicken Cross…

Stripes

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POLICEMAN in front of a bank 3 A.M. … lonely.Policeman State and Madison … high noon … mobs … cars … parcels … lonely.  Woman in suburbs … keeping night watch…