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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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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Chinese Cooking
30 Mar 2013I had a Chinese girlfriend once. Her mother was an opera singer – of the other kind. She always seemed…
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Empathy: The Rules
10 Sep 2012Empathy like its sisters, gravity and light, with us from eternity, is subject to the rule of inverse squares, such…
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A First Birthday
11 Aug 2012At 4:01 in the morning I awake, exactly 58 years of life on earth and this the first that…
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Waiting
16 Jun 2012I am standing, waiting for a bird to breathe. The loudest noise is of shadows leaping leaves. The colors are…
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I Fell From A Bike Today
21 Feb 2012I fell from a bike today, hard. At sixty eight, four feet seems not so far until whacked by gravity…
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Judgment Day
18 Feb 2012I’m getting ready for my day of judgment approaching breath by breath. Preparing in the sunlight, fog or sleet, preparing…
