Kent Werges Poems

In 1913, he was offered a chance
to play for the Cleveland Indians.
His wife said no -
he kept on driving truck.
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How did I talk to 22 year-olds,
using the radio to bring
them back from night raids?
Those who flew the ghost ships
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It begins like gossip.
Before you realize it
it's all you hear.
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There's a piece of the sky
I can't fly through.
I can see the clouds
but I can't get there.
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Stagehand fog
brings backdrops out and in.
Now revealing, now hiding
a faded farmhouse,
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Stagehand fog
brings his backdrops out and in.
Now revealing, now hiding
ferns and forests,
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