Some Poems
from:
The Orphans and other poems
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Blizzards, thaw, blizzards,
yet all this even-handedness about us,
possibly delusion,
shy of absolutes. Cleft vision.
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Anicius Boethius wrote De consolatione
in prison, charged with conspiracy.
It’s thought that he was executed not long after,
in Pavia, place of his exile,
circa 524 CE.
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After a hurried food court lunch
I loiter at the newsstand,
one of several office workers
who crowd this ledge of day
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It escapes us, the question
concerning technology,
Aladdin’s problem, who couldn’t
get the genie back
down in the lamp. Titanic.
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