Posts Tagged with ‘Poetry:Will Kirkland’
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Ashes Tossed to Wind
14 Oct 2016There will come the day when the ashes tossed to wind are mine. Pick a day of heavy breeze, I would…
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Walking Through Spain, A Villanelle
15 Jan 2016Walking Through Spain, A Villanelle Walking through Spain on knotted, riven knees toes soaked in pain backs bent to the…
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First Love
20 Sep 2013First Love for José Angel Valente You were my first…
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A Certain Elderly Frenchman
01 Aug 2013A certain elderly Frenchman, eighty-three, Father, soldier, husband, son, Writes in a shaky hand How it was not so When…
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Ordinary Men
31 Jul 2013Ordinary Men The police battalion in Poland was ordered (with an option to refuse) To round up the Jews. One…
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There On A Beach in Florida, Age 19
31 Jul 2013There on a beach in Florida, age 19, two men, Four muscled knees, two white, two black, Rising and falling…
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For A Moment the Torturers
29 Jul 2013For A Moment the Torturers I can let the nightmares go, the torturers, the rich against the poor When your…
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Your Mother Loved My Poems
13 Jul 2013Your mother loved my poems. That’s a killer, she would say. Her knees grew weak Her voice in smoke dark…
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Blue Squadrons Pounding In From the Sea
29 Jun 2013All who despair should come to this place where silence inflates in wave after wave, where regiments of glass are…
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I Texted My Dad Today
11 Jun 2013I texted my dad today ten years dead. Dad, I wrote, they’re boating the bay heeled over hard, and wet.…
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A Murder of Crows
11 Jun 2013I saw a murder of crows mob a raven today and thought of you, my cousins after cousins across the…
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Chinese Cooking
30 Mar 2013I had a Chinese girlfriend once. Her mother was an opera singer – of the other kind. She always seemed…
