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The Collection
End of Desire: Selected Poems
One hundred poems in seven groups. Every title links to its poem, and the whole collection is there to read or download.
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How a Day Begins
Read post: How a Day BeginsIt is the hour of the hawk when above the trees I go with him, not flying off
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The Swallows Return to Ithaca
Read post: The Swallows Return to IthacaMy broken body makes your dancing a graceful reflection
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Now How Little Doll
Read post: Now How Little DollI call myself a truthful liar. It’s up to you, my artful lover, who start to sweat when I ask
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Stiff Verses These
Read post: Stiff Verses TheseI guess I’m blessed to live this long, blessed to outlive those I love, blessed to think I might live forever,
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Death Makes Strangers of Us All
Read post: Death Makes Strangers of Us AllWhen I asked her who she was, she spat her name in my face biting down on jerk,
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Too Late Too Soon
Read post: Too Late Too SoonThere’s one who comes too late too soon to speak of what cannot be seen. She stands before me all in bloom.
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The Farm That Was Once a Garden
Read post: The Farm That Was Once a GardenOn the farm me and you we do and do
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What Isn’t There
Read post: What Isn’t ThereThough I am known to God as Hughlings, my friends call me Hugh and leave it at that,
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Where We Stand
Read post: Where We StandThough the stars always shine As they do for me tonight They seem to guide my steps