Indiana poet and used & rare bookseller.
There is a man sitting in a room
Writing with a black pen on white paper
The room is drowning in books
The man sits on the only chair
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Aimlessly I walk
through the town's empty streets
weeds defy the pavement
in cracks and fissures
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Early spring rains have overwhelmed the fields
Barren grounds—still frozen—have become
Shallow seas in my imagination
The sunset, with its myriad hues
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Death looks down on the walled city
where the rich sleep in little white houses
and the poor sleep in ovens. Small boxes
with iron doors which will bake a master
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It was an old Indiana road, but one
we had not travelled before.
On a summer-like day
even before the spring, the sky
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