Ed Ochester Poems

And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
--Ray Carver
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We're painting the old house in the Hudson Valley
and we're a team, applying the paint so smoothly
that not a drop gets spilled, it's all cream, and
for the first time he has no complaints about
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Crows, crows, crows, crows
then the slow flapaway over the hill
and the dead oak is naked
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A crown of handmade nails, as though
there were a house here once, burned,
where we've gardened for fifteen years;
the ceramic top of an ancient fuse;
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