Richard Levine Poems

Believe This

All morning, doing the hard, root-wrestling
work of turning a yard from the wild
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The Five Words

If you tell me, Thank you for your service,
and I think you are sincere, especially
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One Morning We Found

One morning we found the near
corner of the Long Meadow mowed
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- on holding my first grandchild for the first time on Fathers' Day

I hold you as if handed an egg
but what broke between us was light
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