New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
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<strong>New</strong> <strong>Classic</strong> <strong>Poems</strong><br />
People and Places<br />
Addressing My Geography<br />
Sam Samson<br />
My skin is brown and leathered from your sun<br />
that perches like a woman on the sand<br />
in linen. And whenever I should stand<br />
beside a Sir from Minsk, Toronto, London<br />
I become the dusty cactus nigh a lake<br />
or palm fronds slick in snow. I can not fight<br />
your southern air that bleaches my hair white<br />
as a serpent, white as February flake.<br />
My Bible Belt, my candy store of Blues<br />
of cotton, corn and swine, you color me<br />
as if I was your canvas, languidly<br />
lapping at the bottoms of my shoes.<br />
From where do you think up such tawny creams<br />
or rouges like a ripe, unopened peach<br />
And does your paint brush dry off by the beach<br />
of Carolina Lauderdale It seems<br />
my nosiness your answers may alight.<br />
If you're Van Gogh, am I a starry night<br />
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