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Poems by Thomas Lux

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"I Love You Sweatheart"

... Did he hint to her at her doorstep the night before ...

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A Kiss

... the grazers. The kiss -- like a shoal of fish whipped ...

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Torn Shades

... as snow fell at a speed and angle you could lean on, ...

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Lucky

... The buzzard's eyes are built for this: he can see the filet's raw ...

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A Little Tooth

... It's allover: she'll learn some words, she'll fall ...

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A Library Of Skulls

... and this one—see how close their eye sockets!—a thief, ...

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The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball

... each day mowed and mowed his lawn, his dry quarter acre, ...

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Refrigerator, 1957

... of the middle door shelf, on fire, a lit-from-within red, ...

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The Road That Runs Beside The River

... Another pleasure, driving against it: it's the same river ...

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Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City

... Larry the Shoemaker, barefoot, over the wall, ...

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Henry Clay's Mouth

... graceful, ugly. Proclaimed, before most, slavery ...

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Gorgeous Surfaces

... tumbling, slow motion, over and over for one day, six days, fourteen ...

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Virgule

... nice: "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--"), solidus (sounding ...

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Motel Seedy

... 17, means something (don't ask me to explain this) special ...

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Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw

... you might hear this finest sound, this lost sound: a plow's silvery prow ...