Bill Grace Poems

After 'Desert Storm'
after active duty
the Air Force awarded
a 20% dissablility
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At the poetry seminar
the greatly honored poet
told us to avoid the word
'you'
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Poetry and Planes
provide platforms to see the world
from above -
the world does not need them -
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Going through the old photographs
a four years old in Dad's arms -
naked four month old on a lamb's wool blanket -
my sister and I talk of Pop's love of opera
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The loud child
does not know
that she is loud
supported by a father's love.
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Girls were off limits.
At the school pool I could look but not touch.
In undergraduate days still interested
but very, very careful.
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Especially in heavy traffic you find them
in the hour of commuting it is guaranteed
sphinx like attached to wheels
they are frozen to the machines they love
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NELSON!
You trouble maker!
My muse heard rumors
you are living next to
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