Allen Braden Biography

In order to develop something akin to miracle,
he acquired a taste for the peeling billboards
that used to promise sweetness to every man
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Everything necessary to maintain
every foundation ever built so far
is found simply by fondling the latch,
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For her it all began on the streets of San Francisco
where The White Angel was doling out slabs of bread,
mugs of coffee and pearl barley stew. Each man's
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Unless beauty's a nest of mice staking claim
to upholstery abandoned, the anonymous
tuft snagged on barbed wire or a tom named
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Not far from where a coyote led me
over the sparsely timbered hillside,
I found a feather held in the sagebrush
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