Robert Rorabeck Poems

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2621.
The Wishes Of Lucky Change

Wounded in glorious battle on the cheek
Like a star fruit in some anonymous class in the middle
Of a round robin high school-
Failing gym, and slipping from the trapeze of her eyes,
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2622.
Like Tears

Wounded by my feather light sport,
Perfumed by arrows of bouquets, and skipping school
Across the canals:
Little otters there diademing the canoes’ prows-
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2623.
My Stalwart Metamorphosis

Up in the apex of a Ferris Wheel,
Looking down at where you live: going nowhere, turning
Around,
Like a tear falling on your roof to sleep,
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2624.
The Far Distant World

I want to be weeping right now: I want to
Be right here,
Staring down the road after all the comely young
Runways are kidnapped,
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2625.
Retreating Butterflies

When school disperses the many brilliant promises
Recorded in her playgrounds that
Remain unknown- even in the middle of the day,
When truants pass across the canal,
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2626.
The Once Brave Men

Groomed as if to be a pilot, and then lying there
Reclining as if triaged in the half light of a living room-
An astronaut who never got even higher than the arboretum
Of apple trees:
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2627.
The Difficult Path

In a cleft of voodoo I find my forgotten love,
Once thought to have been
Run over by a get a way car: now there she is,
Like a piece of silver once folded over
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2628.
Canals And Ballrooms

Retreating by a trail of lost words making
Their way across the
Vermillion apertures of the continent- as if,
Finally, Mexico had really one
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2629.
In A Blissful Sea

Imperfections in a blissful sea of
Waves- waves that never any man shall sea-
So far away from any lighthouse, and yet
Imperfect-
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2630.
Stealing My Beautiful Song

All of the bodies bivouacked- in fact they are a family
So many reasons above the street:
Right under the stars, a husband and a wife who do not
Love anymore,
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