Thomas Thurman
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Transfiguration
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What's seen is seen, and cannot be unknown;
and so he turned my soul, and turns it still.
We'd walked a while, just him and us alone;
we'd wandered up some ordinary hill.
T...
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Too many sonnets
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"Too many sonnets", growls the curt rejection.
Too many sonnets? Can the news be true?
This polished work is workshopped to perfection,
a classic form recast to somethin...
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Sleep
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They say my future follows on your past,
Commanded not to love you by the wise:
They say he never truly lives who lies
A captive still, and by your charms held fast:
Your w...
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I always tried to write about the light
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I always tried to write about the light
that inks these eyes in instant tint and hue,
that chances glances, sparkles through the night,
fresh as the morning, bloody as the ...
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May
marnanel
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The autumn leaves an ill-defined unease
that (while the summer flourished) I'd ignored.
The litany begins. We can't afford
the oil we need to buy before the freeze;
they've...
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Requiem for an oak
marnanel
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I thought I saw an execution there.
The fascinated public gathered round.
The cheerful hangmen stripped the victim bare
And built their gibbet high above the ground.
The ro...
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We had it tough
marnanel
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We had no sonnets when I was a lad.
Well, none of us could run to fourteen lines.
We stuck to ballad form. And we were glad!
As if we gave a damn for such designs!
(Though ...
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Attention
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Perhaps I have forgotten how to read.
I mean, I haven't lost the alphabet
but more and more I'm starting to forget
the way to focus in the form I need
to read a novel; ...
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Two poems
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With mind in neutral on the train today
I thought about a poem that I'd seen
ten years, four thousand miles, a life away
inside a cheap religious magazine.
The rhymes were ...
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Thomas
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They named me for my granddad's father's father;
they said he'd caught consumption in his youth
and left his son an orphan. But the truth
I learned on reading registers is ...
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