William Everson Poems

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1.
Kingfisher Flat

In the long drought
Impotence clutched on the veins of passion
Encircles our bed, a serpent of stone.
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2.
Seed

Some seed in me,
Some troublous birth,
Like an awkward awakening,
stirs into life
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3.
The Poet Is Dead

(excerpt from Everson's memorial for Robinson Jeffers)

Snow on the headland,
The strangely beautiful
Oblique concurrence
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