Brooks Haxton

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Brooks Haxton Sun Poems

  • 1.
    I made sackcloth my garment once, by cutting
    arm and neck holes into a burlap bag.
    A croker sack they called it. Sackdragger
    they called the man who dragged a croker sack
    ...
  • 2.
    The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor
    the moon by night. Psalm 121

    On a hillside scattered with temples broken
    ...
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God 4 Water 3 Young 3 Black 3 Light 3 Sun 2 Soul 2 Dark 2 Long 2 Fever 2

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Her Name Liberty
 by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

I thought to do a deed of chivalry,
An act of worth, which haply in her sight
Who was my mistress should recorded be
And of the nations. And, when thus the fight
Faltered and men once bold with faces white
Turned this and that way in excuse to flee,
I only stood, and by the foeman's might
Was overborne and mangled cruelly.
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