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    unless and until

    william at forty

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    p. t. o'conner (jr.)*

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    michael casey

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    john a. mcguckin

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    douglas v. steere

    timothy ware

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back matter

  
i, a protestant, at the coptic church

[verse]I am a mustang seated
in the stands
of a horse show

Or an old stray
at a dog show
smelling the slack leashes

My dna stirs to
my creed’s core
I feel here what
I couldn’t grasp

I am a wild plant
stunted and fazed
by a lattice covered
with angels of roses

Or I am Absalom’s ghost –
an unsensed, ebbing
essence – jealous only
for my father’s tears

 

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Posted August 19, 2008.  A Read Write poem.

 
 
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