- 1. Year's End
The state cracked where they left your breath
No longer instrument. Along the shore
The sand ripped up, and the newer blood
Streaked like a vein to every monument.
...
- 2. A Musician's Wife
Between the visits to the shock ward
The doctors used to let you play
On the old upright Baldwin
Donated by a former patient
...
- 3. Girl At Midnight
Then walk the floor, or twist upon your bed
While bullets, cold and blind, rush backward from the targetâ??s eye,
And say, â??I will not dream that dream again. I will not dream
Of long-spent whispers vanishing down corridors
...
- 4. Late Evening Song
For a while
Let it be enough:
The responsive smile,
Though effort goes into it.
...
- 5. The End Of The Library
When the coal
Gave out, we began
Burning the books, one by one;
First the set
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- 6. A Distance From The Sea
To Ernest Brace
"And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was
about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto
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- 7. Dead March
Under the bunker, where the reek of kerosene
Prepared the marriage rite, leader and whore,
Imperfect kindling even in this wind, burn on.
...
- 8. Statement With Rhymes
Plurality is all. I walk among the restaurants,
the theatres, the grocery stores; I ride the cars
and hear of Mrs. Bedfordâ??s teeth and Albuquerque,
strikes unsettled, someoneâ??s simply marvelous date,
...
- 9. Robinson At Home
Curtains drawn back, the door ajar.
All winter long, it seemed, a darkening
Began. But now the moonlight and the odors of the street
Conspire and combine toward one community.
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