James McLain Poems

My hands, My heart, My love,
how they worry over me.
Caught up in my lap,
pray hope, never leave.
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Loud smiths of silence and mighty the pen.
Mighty swords hence, I am spread as I finish.

Slow is the labor, carbon and lead, freed from chains.
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Cowboy lonely is the trail on
so little sleep pushing
mindless bovine through
rivers chalky plains water
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Will you show me how the make up
works to hide..lobotomys scar?
Wern't we friends... Doctor?
I cannot remember how to do some
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People who walk by night and butterflies
Last night asleep you are awake right now
A symphony of dreams I saw inside
She has the courage of her father's mother
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Polite was what: >Queen mum then did ask<: : : :
Excuse me: : >(in a frail crackly paper thin voice) one of those special edition been around the block
used up has been hoe's..?
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Without World War two, one sees.
I saw two foot holds, one without me.
I hear the lone hawk, it can not see me
hooded and tied, it works against he.
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Standing there, hush are you so still.
The fog it wraps around you up and up
Angels, 'looking down,
no one here' can see you.
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Each field is barren white with snow,
around me blind, they know.
I see.
Darkness brings the haze of dawn,
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