Hans Ostrom Poems

God, thanks.
Please forgive.
Help and
heal me.
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Certain numbers represent uncertain amounts
of money, which consists of texts (paper, metal)
on which numbers are printed. The certain numbers
just stay numbers unless you are allowed to let
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Sigmund sits in a cool dugout,
theorizing The Babe,
who daily trots out in Heaven’s perpetual
Spring Training and wrists
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Inside a pyramid, its reason:
A former king parched like a leaf
And now impervious to grief,
Bacilli, and a shift of season.
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Shapiro was by nature Luddite and
Iconoclast-ironic then that he
So liked to frame his poetry with lines
Laid out like rows of bricks, with stanzas of
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1. Hear a father say, "The chickens aren't producing."
2. Surmise.
3. Look not forward to killing chickens.
4. Enter the chicken house.
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Today she is the most beautiful one.
Egypt's in her face. What does that
mean? It must mean something.
Faces, bodies, and minds carry
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Like a prostitute’s face, the facades
are blank and professional, ready
to be reeled into routine fantasy.
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And he sent forth a raven
Which went forth to and fro
Until the waters were dried up
From off the earth.
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Northern Hemisphere, September: spiders
come inside. They slip through seams
to here, where summer seems to them
to spend the winter. Their digits tap out
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