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Wanda Swim Strunk
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Wanda Swim Strunk Poems
- August Is The Dying Month August is the dying month When hot...
- I Wanted To Be A Willow Tree Tangled in the loving slender ...
- I Am Holding Your Eyes Hostage I am Holding your ...
- Some Guitarists I Know Casey hides behind an Elvis ...
- Human Suitcase you made My bones Flesh and skin you and ...
- New York Sucks New York sucked me into its pavement Until I...
- Pretty Girl In A Shitty Car Pretty Girl in a shitty ...
Wanda Swim Strunk is a native Iowan whose works have appeared in literary magazines and the Poem ' I wanted to be a Willow Tree' was winner of the coveted Mississippi Valley Poetry contest's Mississippi Valley category and her most known poem ' August is the dying month' first appeared here on poemhunter. Her works have been chosen by Harvard's foreign students as poems of the month and she has ... more »
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August Is The Dying Month
August is the dying month
When hot July struggles to keep her hold
Moving toward a hopeless chilled September
Pretending to be summer
As if children heading back to school stir the cold from the sky
It is a refined deceiver
August is a butterfly crushed on a roadway
One side dead to the pavement
The other is still vibrantly flutteringly alive
Fighting to fly away but it’s fate is already sealed
It is a delicate executioner
August is the month colors trickle from trees
A first leaf unnoticed tumbles
Sheepishly the others will shortly ...
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