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He’s heard stories of amber, of winter storms that deposit
yellow knurls and knuckles the length of the long beach
that runs north to Palanga, of roads jammed even in winter...
The space between two people never quite closes. That’s
all right. It’s the rub of surfaces we need anyway, the slow
I could sit down on this rock, partway up the hill. No time
for the overlook, much less Split Rock. A good day
for caterpillars and new greenery, mushrooms and
Too much of anything is better than Milwaukee's Best
when the first snow hits in November and I'm already sick
Not so long ago, the standard view was that American poetry had been thoroughly secularized by the great modernist poets, ...
It came to me as I waited at the desk, thinking how to turn
another scattered group toward the day’s work: I want a bell....
Both the owner and his daughter said we’d have to see the crosses,...
The dates in the title tell of Richard Wilbur’s remarkable longevity. Once a youthful prodigy, he became part of poetry anthologies 30 years ago....
The young preacher said so and then hurried on and the girls
who had led the praise songs nodded and whispered in the front pew...
When William Stafford died in 1993, he was not the most famous or most critically acclaimed poet around, but he was certainly among the most beloved....
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