Stephen Dobyns Poems

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11.
Cezanne and the Love of Color

Because his wife refused to miss a dress fitting,
she missed his death instead. He painted to the last,
a portrait in profile of his gardener sitting
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12.
Cecil

How calm is the spring evening, and the water
barely a ripple. My son stands at the edge
tossing in pebbles, then jumping back. He knows
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13.
Sun Gazers

My stepdaughter is three and we have some games
we play when she gets back from day care and I
have finished my work for the day. In one game,
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14.
Cezanne's Seclusion

'I have begun to think,' he wrote in a late letter,
'that one cannot help others at all.' This
from a man who once called friendship the highest
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15.
Grief

Trying to remember you
is like carrying water
in my hands a long distance
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16.
Cezanne's Success

The girls he followed down the street, the heartbreaks
he pretended to suffer, the giddy letters he wrote
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17.
The Birth Of Angels

The heavy lidded enterprise of the dead
begins with forgetting, ends with forgotten.
Like smoke, so thick at first but higher
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18.
Do They Have A Reason?

Life begins, you make some friends,
what futures you plan for one another.
No failures here, no one sent to prison.
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19.
The Last Take-Out Supper

Jesus agreed to send out for Chinese.
Styrofoam containers were placed before
the Disciples. All received two egg rolls.
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20.
SANTIAGO: FIVE MEN IN THE STREET: NUMBER ONE

Four fellows in orange uniforms
and a fifth in a dismal suit play
pickup soccer in the street. It's their
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