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R.A. Burleigh Poems
- All About Time We sit while children crawl about happy Toys ...
- Crows Slide and glide Through the corn field Behind the ...
- Kathleen The daughters ran away into the hills after boys ...
- Poem That Was Late (For Mary Schegel) I was ready for ...
- Dennis Brutus: Entropy Of Resp... When I was eighteen and ...
- The Law Of The Universe The boy and the man are climbing the ...
- I Thought About A Gift. (Revi... for your Highschool ...
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All About Time
We sit while children crawl about happy
Toys are scattered like leaves
Red and orange and brown from my old house at 407
I never saw so many leaves, or so many children
In my future, in your room
There you are, the boy in the tree
And we have.come down, suddenly
I am corrupt with time
All my eyes are full of ghosts
All the ghosts join us in the leaves
and someone has lit the leaves on fire
O I do so love the smoke of all the leaves
And mother said
Don't stand so close
And Kate's mouth was so, wonderful
With kisses and songs
and ...
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