Poets/Barbara Crooker

Barbara Crooker

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A quarter of a century …

Barbara Crooker

and the garden diminishes: cucumber leaves rumpled …

Barbara Crooker

is a river you wade in until you get to the other side. …

Barbara Crooker

Maybe night is about to come …

Barbara Crooker

We’re writing our names with sizzles of light …

Barbara Crooker

It’d been a long winter, rags of snow hanging on; then, at the end …

Barbara Crooker

The sky hangs up its starry pictures: a swan, …

Barbara Crooker

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