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Poems by Hayden Carruth

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Saturday At The Border

... Was north and solitude and not a villanelle,Working from memory and not remembering well ...

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The Curtain

... lete cruelty, where heads fell like wilted flowers and snow fell for many months across the mouth ...

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Notes on Poverty

...  in those damned days ...

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Bears at Raspberry Time

... they’ll be strung up by the paws ...

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None

...  the smokehole and boarded the front entrance, and cut  ...

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I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You

... and I went out into the night with electrical steps ...

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Emergency Haying

... Heavy rains brought on the grass tremendously, a monster crop, ...

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Abandoned Ranch, Big Bend

... Sun dance and clicking metal, where the lizard blinks  ...

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Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey

... Chicago, a sweet town, bleak, God knows, ...

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Graves

... s death my friend had gone to the wake  ...

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If It Were Not for You

... How gravely and sweetly the poor touch in the dark ...

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Sonnet #10

... You rose from our embrace and the small light spread ...

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The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill

... After all, you say, you've been creating yourself all ...

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Song of the Two Crows

... Is it fluorescent, do these stones  ...

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The Bearer

...   The silence beneath great trees, the dimness there,  ...