Roberta Hill Whiteman Poems

"Hi, guy," said I to a robin
perched on a pole in the middle
of the garden. Pink and yellow
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They are a gift I have wanted again.
Wanted: One moment in mountains
when winter got so cold
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In the cubbyhole entrance to Cornell and Son,
a woman in a turquoise sweater
curls up to sleep. Her right arm seeks
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"It isn't a game for girls,"
he said, grabbing a fifth
with his right hand,
the wind with his left.
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I scratch earth around timpsila
on this hill, while below me,
hanging in still air, a hawk
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White horses, tails high, rise from the cedar.
Smoke brings the fat crickets,
trembling breeze.
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House of five fires, you never raised me.
Those nights when the throat of the furnace
wheezed and rattled its regular death,
I wanted your wide door,
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Stoplights edged the licorice street with ribbon,
neon embroidering wet sidewalks. She turned
into the driveway and leaped in the dark. A blackbird
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