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HERE AT THE MILLENNIUM Children of Atlas 150 First Snow 151 Thanksgiving Thoughts 151 Impromptu 152 Dusk 153 As Idols Fall in the Afghan Hills 153 Six Christmas Verses 154 The ‘Possum 155 Twenty-Year New Yorker, After His Exile 155 Revelations 157 Arabesques on the State of Liberty 157 Quack 159 Boston Lunch Counter 159 Gutenberg’s Helper 160 Nemesis 161 The Sterile Squash 161 Vermont Images 162 Dead Princess 163 Cave Deum 163 Dramatis Personae 164 Articles of Faith 165 From Salem Forward 165 Miser 166 Handicapped Game Preserve, West Virginia 167 Housecleaning 167 Lethe 168 THE ISLES OF GREECE Prometheus on Fifth Avenue 169 Promethean Epilogue 170 Athena and Medusa 171 Burnt Offering 172 Dialogue 172 Prometheus Chained 173 The Death of Queen Jocasta 182
THE GODS AS THEY ARE, ON THEIR PLANETS
Page 3 and 4: THINGS SAID ABOUT BRETT RUTHERFORD
Page 5 and 6: THE GODS AS THEY ARE, ON THEIR PLAN
Page 7 and 8: PROLOGUE Prologue 11 Between the Pa
Page 9: At the Verge of Spring 115 Scraps 1
Page 14 and 15: la sombra de ala de un águila, el
Page 16 and 17: It’s just the month: November lie
Page 18 and 19: tossed markers into the outraged wa
Page 20 and 21: Does it have meaning, this seed-sha
Page 22 and 23: AUTUMN A Fragment by Alexander Push
Page 24 and 25: IX Bring me my horse! The steppes a
Page 26 and 27: AUTUMN SUNDAYS IN MADISON SQUARE St
Page 28 and 29: Is this the potter’s field of sha
Page 30 and 31: Like many others around me, I pick
Page 32 and 33: RUNAWAYS I want to report a disappe
Page 34 and 35: WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE The photos from
Page 36 and 37: AUTUMN ON MARS for Ray Bradbury On
Page 38 and 39: POETICA LOVECRAFTIANA MAKER OF MONS
Page 40 and 41: 2 Lost penguins arrive here from ti
Page 42 and 43: THE TREE AT LOVECRAFT’S GRAVE Thi
Page 44 and 45: Some child three plots over, Mother
Page 46 and 47: those bony fingers wrote sonnets an
Page 48 and 49: AFTER THE STORM THINGS SEEN IN GRAV
Page 50 and 51: AN EXETER VAMPIRE, 1799 She comes b
Page 52 and 53: GRAVEYARDS I’D LIKE TO SEE 1 An a
Page 54 and 55: THE HARVESTMAN Day fell. The coolin
Page 56 and 57: THE EAR MOUND SHRINE, KYOTO 1 Korea
Page 58 and 59: ghost hands on their ever-bleeding
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TWILIGHT OF THE DICTATORS THE EXHUM
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WINTER SOLSTICE 1989 December skies
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STALIN AND SHOSTAKOVICH It’s thre
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3 Stalin works on. He sees the name
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Determined and sinister, shining an
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Instruments re-gather in the countr
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I sense them coming, feel the grass
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My coffin is moored to your chimney
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I spot the easy prey, hear sighs fr
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preceding thunderstorm in rasp of a
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of pine and hemlock boughs, an elde
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and lewd graffiti, risking neglect
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(not pausing at Percy Bysshe!) then
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HUNCHBACK ASSISTANT TELLS ALL 1 My
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How could I bear to hear him suffer
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4 Then she came — Elizabeth. At f
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I stole away, the scent of her gold
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(a house with three comely daughter
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to the vat of green elixir in which
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then leaps straight up at the Dog S
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APPALACHIAN IDYLL I have seen it: t
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filling a pail for the stove, when
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holy war, muddled ideology, can cla
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One sleepless night the King makes
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THE OLD GRAVESTONES Names last, dat
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Did they hear, through my chimney,
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You cannot turn back, belong no mor
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TILLIE Steel-town Tillie was my fir
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ENVOI Edinboro Lake, Pennsylvania 1
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SCRAPS It is a trust. A box for eac
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my mother seats me outside in sunli
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He reaches up for the lower branch
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I wake again at mid-day. They wheel
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The men in her rooms are boarders,
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POETRY MOTELS A Helms amendment to
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Instead you tell me I’m doomed to
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DEAD POETS thirteen thousand lady p
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AGAINST THE WRITING OF SONNETS* Thi
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FINALISTS — CHRISTIAN LADIES’ P
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THE SHY ONE NOT A LOVE SONG, NO, NE
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ODE 22: A HAUNTING There is a time
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ODE 8 What I would say to you is no
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Lightning erupts between our finger
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ODE 19: LOVED ONES Loved ones, the
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TRIPTYCH i Eros, you are a child no
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Even the unremembered hermit can fi
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CHILDREN OF ATLAS HERE AT THE MILLE
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As we walk home, wine-warmed and do
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(No time, no time as the dynamite e
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the rivets and spikes that loosen b
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2 In Chinatown, Mrs. Wang mounts a
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GUTENBERG’S HELPER On the redisco
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VERMONT IMAGES for Don and Laura 1
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THIS BUILDING PATROLLED BY VICIOUS
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eat you beat as the day approached
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LETHE Deliver the fruit of the gard
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What did he do?” “He died for s
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BURNT OFFERING Anakreon, to Harmodi
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a man-shaped terrain in whose shado
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His hawk-face is blue with ague. (P
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“We scarcely noticed them,” the
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hag-things with multi-jointed spind
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THE DEATH OF QUEEN JOCASTA: A NEW S
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WOMAN 2 Jocasta is wed to her cast-
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WOMAN 1 Did you not see the strange
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CHORUS Taken in crime, they always
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CHORUS We speak no more. Our hands
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ferent from what we do. Poets in Gr
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AUTUMN SUNDAYS IN MAD- ISON SQUARE
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I hesitated for a while before writ
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SNOFRU THE MAD was based on readi n
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little. She was long dead when they
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memory of licorice-flavored water,
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have had dep ressed periods when I
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Staten Isl and Ferry and get to pas
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lent monk. On the prisoner’s brea
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