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Born in February 29, 1920 / Died in July 5, 1991 / United States / English

Poems by Howard Nemerov

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September, The First Day Of School

... As from the whole, inseperably, the lives,The shrunken lives that have not been set free ...

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Learning by Doing

... Now that they've got it sectioned on the groundIt looks as though somebody made a plain ...

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A Spell before Winter

... Brought down by the wind, then by hammering rain ...

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The Makers

... Conjurors with love, death, sleep, with bread and wine, ...

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Lion & Honeycomb

... The time came He had to ask himself, what did he want ...

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The Goose Fish

... His throat that the sand seemed to choke, ...

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Storm Windows

... The ripple and splash of rain on the blurred glass ...

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Walking the Dog

... While he mooches along with tail up and snout down, ...

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Ozymandias II

... And rust like a fungus spreading on the fenders,Well, what I mean, that fucking car still runs, ...

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Poetics

... and "Lady," he gravely says, "I sure hope your team wins ...

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A Life

... In no sense! Was that it ...

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Fugue

... They spread in their wake the parading fields of food, ...

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Learning the Trees

... And how it does it, cutting across the worldNot always at the joints, competing with ...

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Because You Asked About The Line Between Prose And Poetry

... That while you watched turned into pieces of snow ...

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The Lobster

... Thinking: There's something underneath the world ...