Ruth Stone Poems

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1.
In The Next Galaxy

Things will be different.
No one will lose their sight,
their hearing, their gallbladder.
It will be all Catskills with brand
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2.
Good Advice

Here is not exactly here
because it passed by there
two seconds ago;
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3.
The Wound

The shock comes slowly
as an afterthought.
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4.
Eden, Then And Now

In ’29 before the dust storms
sandblasted Indianapolis,
we believed in the milk company.
Milk came in glass bottles.
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5.
Always On The Train

Writing poems about writing poems
is like rolling bales of hay in Texas.
Nothing but the horizon to stop you.
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6.
It Follows

If you had a lot of money
(by some coincidence
you’re at the Nassau Inn in Princeton
getting a whiff of class)
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7.
Look To The Future

To you born into violence,
the wars of the red ant are nothing;
you, in the heart of the eruption.
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8.
1941

I wore a large brim hat
like the women in the ads.
How thin I was: such skin.
Yes. It was Indianapolis;
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9.
Male Gorillas

At the doughnut shop
twenty-three silverbacks
are lined up at the bar,
sitting on the stools.
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10.
This Strangeness In My Life

It is so hard to see where it is,
but it is there even in the morning
when the miracle of shapes
assemble and become familiar,
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