Brooks Haxton Water Poems

  • 1.
    Cattle egrets in the dry grass waded
    like white clerics at the hooves
    of brood cows, heifers, and new calves.

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  • 2.
    Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy
    waterspouts. Psalm 42

    The waterfall in sunlight is God
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  • 3.
    Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Psalm 42

    Down from twilight into dark at noon,
    through darker, down until the black
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Total 3 Water Poems by Brooks Haxton

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Her Name Liberty
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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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