Poets/C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams

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Thank goodness we were able to wipe the Neanderthals out, beastly things, …

C. K. Williams

Spring: the first morning when that one true block of sweet, laminar, …

C. K. Williams

I hate how this unsummoned sigh-sound, sob-sound, …

C. K. Williams

On the metro, I have to ask a young woman to move the packages beside her to make room for me; …

C. K. Williams

A girl who, in 1971, when I was living by myself, painfully lonely, bereft, depressed, …

C. K. Williams

The first morning of Three Mile Island: those first disquieting, uncertain, mystifying hours. …

C. K. Williams

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C. K. Williams

Some dictator or other had gone into exile, and now reports were coming about his regime, …

C. K. Williams

Chop, hack, slash; chop, hack, slash; cleaver, boning knife, ax— …

C. K. Williams

Kids once carried tin soldiers in their pockets as charms …

C. K. Williams

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