Poets/Alan R. Shapiro

Alan R. Shapiro

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The one cashier is dozing— …

Alan R. Shapiro

The songs swept down from the northern steppes …

Alan R. Shapiro

The two boys lean out on the railing …

Alan R. Shapiro

Old court. Old chain net hanging in frayed links from the rim, …

Alan R. Shapiro

The oldest sister, her two hands on the table, …

Alan R. Shapiro

I lay back on the carpeted bottom step …

Alan R. Shapiro

Over an edge of cloud the naked angel …

Alan R. Shapiro

The present tense …

Alan R. Shapiro

The gregarious dark is shifting …

Alan R. Shapiro

Unwitting accomplice in the scheme of law …

Alan R. Shapiro

What never comes when called. …

Alan R. Shapiro

Up in the billboard, over old South Station, …

Alan R. Shapiro

proceeds by chance …

Alan R. Shapiro

Radiant child of Leto, farworking Lord Apollo, …

Alan R. Shapiro

Water roared everywhere around us, yet from the bank …

Alan R. Shapiro

Long scree of pill bottles …

Alan R. Shapiro

There were two voices in the fever dream: …

Alan R. Shapiro

Did you ever have a family? …

Alan R. Shapiro

I walked from my house down Coolidge Street last night …

Alan R. Shapiro

Extravagant sweep …

Alan R. Shapiro

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