Will Barber (1948 / TX)

Poems of Will Barber

1. #progress 12/31/2009
2. A Chorale 9/5/2006
3. A Hymn of Praise 9/4/2006
4. A New Lament, and New Hope 5/26/2008
5. A New Song 5/29/2008
6. A Rehearsal for a Song 9/16/2006
7. A Song of 6/30/2008
8. Adonis 1/16/2009
9. Alice 3/1/2008
10. All Things May Move Joyfully 8/23/2008
11. An Archbishop in Arabia 4/17/2008
12. Anecdote 11/8/2007
13. Apostrophe 9/27/2008
14. Autumn Friends 7/27/2009
15. Be Here 4/21/2009
16. Beauty, As She Passes By 10/18/2008
17. Before I Cross the River 9/16/2006
18. Below the Waves 11/7/2009
19. Do Angels Guard the Gate? 5/3/2008
20. Dover Beach, Revisited 9/6/2006

You Are Like a Ghost

You: you are like a ghost
Fluttering, pensive, in my memory,
Skirting the well-lighted rooms in which I read.

You: you are like a ghost;
I feel you inhabit
Those rooms where I must no longer go.

How events mock one, I am tempted to say.

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