Robert Rorabeck Poems

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2551.
City Of Red Slumbers

I suppose you are lying- the sky so wide
It drapes the rivers and the places
Where people lie
Beside the traffic where light is moving;
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2552.
Blossoming In The Emptiness

Daylight unifying us as our bodies
Move- this species
And its baseball, the failures of my words:
The empty cadences of a busy hall-
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2553.
Their Iridescent Memory

Failures of the every day and of my songs:
Box cars stuck alongside the highway
That even the tourists don’t care about- weathering,
As the forests curdle,
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2554.
My Misinformed Delusion

Now I am up again, loveless above the meadow:
The most of me a failure in the light-
Looking down at the tossed about cities,
Developing vertigo
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2555.
Into A Bosom

Soft moonlight in a movie theatre
And kisses-
Touching over the handicaps of the senses:
And it is alright,
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2556.
Into A Bosom Of A World

Soft moonlight in a movie theatre
And kisses-
Touching over the handicaps of the senses:
And it is alright,
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2557.
If I Will Ever See Her Again

Candle light doused in the sea underneath the
Pretty fort: what have you been doing, but holding
Your breath and not making any wishes,
And now your time is out, and nothing can be given to
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2558.
Like A Promise Burning

Amber perfumes of a forest with bees,
Up in the joints where the butterflies go to
Die going blind in the moping
Draperies of angels, and languishing there
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2559.
The Ash Of The Sugar Cane

Moon and Indians above the pylons
Of a coral castle at right angles and all the purple
Angels disappearing into the obscure darkness with
Their badges
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2560.
That I Already Knew

Uneven developments except for the pigments of her
Brown body:
She will go home to him now, and enjoy him as she
Enjoys her family, in the hemisphere that is their
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