Stanley Plumly

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And then he would lift this finest
of furniture to his big left shoulder
and tuck it in and draw the bow
so carefully as to make the music

almost visible on the air...
Stanley Plumly (b. 1939), U.S. poet. Out-of-the-Body Travel (l. 1-5). . . Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, The, 1950-1980. Stuar...
''The violin
sustains him. It is pain remembered.''
Stanley Plumly (b. 1939), U.S. poet. Out-of-the-Body Travel (l. 18-19). . . Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, The, 1950-1980. Stu...
I know if I wake up cold,

and go out into the clear spring night,
still dark and precise with stars,
I will feel the wind coming down hard
like his hand, in fever, ...
Stanley Plumly (b. 1939), U.S. poet. Out-of-the-Body Travel (l. 20-24). . . Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, The, 1950-1980. Stu...