Michael Burch Poems

NOTE: The Natchez Trace is the Nashville bar where I met my future wife Beth. We invented a game called 'twister pool' which involved billiards, drinking and a fair bit of physical contortion...


At the Natchez Trace
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The Watergaw
by Hugh MacDiarmid
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
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To a Mouse
by Robert Burns
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
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Sandy Hook Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch

Our hearts are broken today
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I Pray Tonight, for the Sandy Hook Survivors
by Michael R. Burch

I pray tonight
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Sandy Hook: Piercing The Shell
by Michael R. Burch

If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
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Frail envelope of flesh,
lying cold on the surgeon's table
with anguished eyes
like your mother's eyes
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Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch

for my wife, Elizabeth Harris Burch, and my mother, Christine Ena Burch
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What Would Santa Claus Say
by Michael R. Burch

What would Santa Claus say,
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I've Got Jesus's Face On A Wallet Insert
by Michael R. Burch

for the Religious Right
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