For No Dreams
April 29, 2018Are you afraid again,
Doing without end?
Listen into stone.
Shut your skin to the sun.
Are you afraid again,
Doing without end?
Listen into stone.
Shut your skin to the sun.
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Ever last jack man, woman, and papoose
was down to the station to see the President
come steaming in, smoke blowing, Panama waving
pleasure to ride your new train yessir nice
country Senator Smoot Squint Indian howdaya do.
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All three of these poets claim, explicitly or implicitly, to be “western,” and it is unlikely that anyone will challenge the claim. Their poems reflect the western landscape, or, more specifically, the Great Basin landscape…