David McLansky Poems

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161.
The Oaten Bride (7)

The liquid spells of the earth
Are chanted in the dark with mirth
Naked the jagged stone
In the moonlight on the loam
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162.
Signing Off

What can make my daughter cry,
She stands a stranger, bleak, dry-eyed,
Intent to get the papers signed
Making hers what once was mine;
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163.
But What If No One Asks (A Riff)

But what if no one asks,
You're never mentioned,
Do we defy our task,
Transgress convention?
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164.
Paris Cafe: For Lillian

She sits and reads her livre de poche
And drinks her glass vin rouge,
And in her eyes are fragile tears
That secretly perfuse;
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165.
To An American Lady In Ireland

Did I miss you in Dunquin Town,
When you dropped your hankie
On the ground?
You could at least
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166.
Land Of Shinar

'Out of the Land of South Shinar....
Rises a jewel amid the stars....
In Cassiopeia's constellation, ....
The Queen and Goddess of Our Nation; '....
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167.
Riff On Ima Ryma's One Last Gift

This is the clerk at New Windsor FedEx,
About your package wrapped with your ex,
You used a cheap brand of masking tape,
The sticky stuff was out of date
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168.
On Owain Glyn's Temperance Club

On Owain Glyn's Temperance Club
I think it cruel
And not too funny
That a Welshman's luck
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169.
A Cry For Motherland: A Suggestion To Bolami Lawal

A Cry For Motherland
A suggestion
To Bolami lawal
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170.
Raptor Xmas

Before pinning down
Their breakfast treat,
Raptors always
Wash their feet;
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