Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Little "Shaver" (Paper Boy), August, 1905

(photograph by Lewis W. Hine)


Barefoot, leaning 
Back against gigantic candy- 
Striped barber pole, 

Says he’s six years old, all of 
Forty-one inches high, the paper he’s holding 
That takes up half his frame holds 

All the news you’d want to know. 

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Eonian Mode


Though the wind laments in fits 
And starts betwixt silences, 

Still its song remains one 
Long—nay—endless 

Sigh. 

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Looking Backward


Of course you know one foot goes 
Before the other but what if 

You say it led you the other way? 

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Telltale


All told 

The townsfolk sometimes tell time 
By the toll of the town clock bell; 

All save one tell one’s time’s up 
By the church bell’s telling 

Toll, toll, toll. 

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

After the Fall


Where the remains of the stock had come 
To rest, there no longer gathered a congress

Of crickets whose sole lot in life was 
To sing while stripping it  

Unceremoniously bare. 


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