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Poems by Brooks Haxton

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Monster Minded

... pure enough to stop the heart ...

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Thy Name

... King David to the harp and sackbut sings, in paraphrase, My luck ...

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Unclean

... Here, the preacher (burning in his bones with fever, puking ...

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1985

... Psalm 58It was the fortieth year since Buchenwald: two thousand ...

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I Want to Pray

... In the hidden part thou shalt make me to know ...

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Every Death Is Magic from the Enemy to Be Avenged

... Psalm 22When fever burned the last light out of my daughter’s eyes, ...

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Salesmanship, With Half A Dram Of Tears

... Yet, looking now into the room of strangers' eyes, I wanted ...

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Sackcloth

... Psalm 102I made sackcloth my garment once, by cutting ...

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Rotgut

... I took him, staggering and laughing, in my arms, and soon, ...