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  February 2018     6 years ago

Submitted Poems 3 total

Morning, Thinking of Empire

We press our lips to the enameled rim of the cups
and know this grease that floats
over the coffee will one day stop our hearts.
Eyes and fingers drop onto silverware
that is not silverware. Outside the window, waves
beat against the chipped walls...

by Raymond Carver

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The Mechanic

Were we now to fall
to our stubborn knees
and sink to rest, my-
self sunk in yours,...

by Robert Creeley

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Marilyn’s was Norma Jean.
Things are not always as they seem.
Skin she lived back of like some screen

kept her wonder in common view,
said what she did, you could too,
loved by many, touched by...

by Robert Creeley

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added 6 years ago
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