Joseph Wilford (10.28.65 / Iowa)
Poems by Joseph Wilford : 4 / 11
Gotham
Skyscraper arms
reach out
embrace me
shake off
dust of fields
breathe not
the humid
animal smell
of meadows
thick with daisies
replace these
with soot
and sweet
diesel breath
(6/00)
Joseph Wilford
Submitted: Thursday, September 15, 2005
Edited: Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Poems by Joseph Wilford : 4 / 11
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