Michael Chitwood Poems

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1.
The Collection

Even two years later, she still gets correspondence
addressed to him. Correspondence. This like that.
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2.
Men Throwing Bricks

The one on the ground lofts two at a time
with just the right lift for them to finish
their rise as the one on the scaffold turns
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3.
Basement Barber

Here were said the words men say.
The oil stove winked its slit black eye;
it knew they did not have their way.
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4.
Dollar Bill

Small-town AM station,
morning show,
still doing a gospel number every hour.
Who's listening?
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5.
The Coffins

Two days into the flood
they appear, moored against
a roof eave or bobbing caught
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6.
Morning Walk, Holden Beach

Ghost moon in the upper right-hand corner
where we used to write our names—
Is it quiet there, Tom,
adrift from your drift of ashes?
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7.
Fixing It

The Happy Handyman's van
has just come down my street.
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8.
The Municipality

has given him a shirt
with his name on it.
Such is the way
of municipalities
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9.
Heat

A Coke bottle stopped
with a sprinkle head
sat at one end of the board.
She'd swap iron for bottle,
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10.
White Night

White night,
distance is done in.
Is this Heaven,
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