Poets/Christian Wiman

Christian Wiman

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No remembering now …

Christian Wiman

I. …

Christian Wiman

All my friends are finding new beliefs. …

Christian Wiman

Solitary as a mast on a mountaintop, …

Christian Wiman

A shadow in the shape of a house …

Christian Wiman

Do you remember the rude nudists? …

Christian Wiman

That’s enough memories, thank you, I’m stuffed. …

Christian Wiman

Incurable and unbelieving …

Christian Wiman

What words or harder gift …

Christian Wiman

Lord is not a word. …

Christian Wiman

Love's last urgency is earth …

Christian Wiman

—You prick too liberal into alien pains, …

Christian Wiman

I don't want to be alive anymore. …

Christian Wiman

I have no illusion …

Christian Wiman

1. deathbed …

Christian Wiman

A town so flat a grave's a hill, …

Christian Wiman

Brachest, she called it, gentling grease …

Christian Wiman

Then all one day because of ice …

Christian Wiman

Lean and sane …

Christian Wiman

After love …

Christian Wiman

Today I woke and believed in nothing. …

Christian Wiman

I tell you it's a bitch existence some Sundays …

Christian Wiman

This inwardness, this ice, …

Christian Wiman

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