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Poems by Daniel Nester

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Isaiah’s Coal

... Then on comfort snugger than pillows  ...

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Gravity

... No need for Signs with their skull and crossbones, chain-link gates: ...

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Blind Joy

... Who’d dare to breathe this fern-thick bird-rich day ...

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Christmas Tree

... Here once the enchanted children laid their heads,  ...

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Parting: 1940

... For well they knew, the parters in all evenings  ...

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Decline and Fall

... Earth shook: the columns walked, in midair clashed,  ...

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Portrait

... You heap the linen with purse, scarf, cigarettes, lighter,  ...

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Days of Our Years

... It’s brief and bright, dear children ...

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Madrigal in Time of War

... cup;  Often my lip moved downward and yours up  ...

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Conclusion

... . . If what began (look far and wide) will end:  ...

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Niagara

...   II Ten feet over those, our railing perched on a spur where verge and void&mdash ...

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The Caveman on the Train

...   First planks on querulous ground, then treads of met ...