r james sterzinger Poems

Ecce Ancilla Domini.
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no ends no means no justification
life had become a spider's web
folding and winding around itself
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Nitrous Oxide
Novocain
or the meditation techniques
you learned from the
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shorter days
wet damp indifferent days
to us fools who
believe in the permanence of
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Leghorns.....For Mary Oliver

a bouquet of red roses
for my lady friend
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last year
winter was softer,
easier...
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When I was young and he was younger

Still, we both believed in God and
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The Symmetries of Flowers in Concrete for M

stopping at the new bus stop
on Broadway and Penn
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the old days
the music I
played long and hard
off of deep black as night
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Too little sleep
Too early rising
It's what I blame it on
Too many relatives coming through the door
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