Thomas Lux Poems

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11.
Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw

gnawing through a shinbone, a high howl
inside of which a bloody, slashed-by-growls note
is heard, unlike that
sound, and instead, its opposite: a barely sounded
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12.
The Road That Runs Beside The River

follows the river as it bends
along the valley floor,
going the way it must.
Where water goes, so goes the road,
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13.
Lucky

One sweet pound of filet mignon
sizzles on the roadside. Let's say a hundred yards below
the buzzard. The buzzard
sees no cars or other buzzards
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14.
Torn Shades

How, in the first place, did
they get torn-pulled down hard
too many times: to hide a blow,
or sex, or a man
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15.
He Has Lived In Many Houses

furnished rooms, flats, a hayloft,
a tent, motels, under a table,
under an overturned rowboat, in a villa (briefly) but not,
as yet, a yurt. In these places
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16.
Virgule

What I love about this little leaning mark
is how it divides
without divisiveness. The left
or bottom side prying that choice up or out,
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17.
The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently

is not silent, it is a speaking-
out-loud voice in your head; it is *spoken*,
a voice is *saying* it
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18.
Dead Horse

At the fence line, I was about to call him in when,
at two-thirds profile, head down
and away from me, he fell first
to his left front knee
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19.
Goofer-Dust

(dirt stolen from an infant's grave around midnight)
Do not try to take it from my child's grave, nor
from the grave
of my childhood,
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20.
Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City

Early germ
warfare. The dead
hurled this way look like wheels
in the sky. Look: there goes
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