Robert Rorabeck Gardens Poems

I helped her down from the mountain
and we slept together in the woods.

The space between us was enormous,
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All of the busied happiness tries to pretend there
Reptiles
Whist across of all of the unhappied wishing wells
Shows the visages of presidents
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Don't you know what the queen remembers?
I have gone to the liquor store and tomorrow will be
My birthday—
Another birthday and I will keep with the kids at school:
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This is often the summer, or the way the housewife
Feltâ€"leaving herself beside the
Long necklaces of the poolsâ€"while the diamonds
Sparkled off of her and her armpits,
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Pulling in the vision of
Another dousing crepescule—
The crickets sound against the foothills of
The mailboxes
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In rainstorms we made love
Even as we began to die- outside of the high schools
Where the angels
And the airplanes began to cry:
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Now we sang of the infinite yards: and now this:
And now this:
The way I sometimes still see my own mother inside the blue carport
Getting undressed and electrocuted:
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