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Poems by Philip Levine

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Late Light

... I thought of my oldest son, who years ...

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You Can Have It

... and sleeps when he rises to face this life, and that together they are only one man ...

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I Won, You Lost

... The lilt of his worn voice broken ...

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A Woman Waking

... If she rose and walked barefoot on the wood floor ...

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They Feed They Lion

... They Lion grow. From the sweet glues of the trotters ...

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Night Words

... of the river that runs through every child's dreams ...

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What Work Is

... You've never done something so simple, so obvious, ...

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Among Children

... Ten years ago I went among these same children, just born, ...

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At Bessemer

... A life was calling to be lived, but how ...

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Animals Are Passing From Our Lives

... The boy who drives me along believesthat any moment I'll fall ...

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A Sleepless Night

... of poppies. The mockingbird squawks ...

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An Ending

... Don't be scared, the book said, don't flee ...

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The Simple Truth

... out of my childhood in a pink spangled sweater and sunglasses ...

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Waking In March

... a dry kiss. Why am I so quiet ...

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Father

... I waited at windows the rain streaked ...