Poets/Dan Beachy-Quick

Dan Beachy-Quick

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Posterity, this me is Now— …

Dan Beachy-Quick

You are for me as you cannot be …

Dan Beachy-Quick

I listen and listen but how do I know …

Dan Beachy-Quick

Scholar-on-waves, a water-gazer, …

Dan Beachy-Quick

Mortal oddment, there’s no wish in the blood …

Dan Beachy-Quick

Peace fell on the dim lands a sort of abstraction …

Dan Beachy-Quick

Before the God-bullied hull, call me— …

Dan Beachy-Quick

The lightning struck him and left a scar. …

Dan Beachy-Quick

No reverie begs “light” in the blind eye. …

Dan Beachy-Quick

] the full moon is two half-moons joined …

Dan Beachy-Quick

Must I, in this question I am asking, include myself …

Dan Beachy-Quick

I created more loss where I meant to make less. …

Dan Beachy-Quick

The field blank in snow. But I mean this page. …

Dan Beachy-Quick

To make beauty out of pain, it damns the eyes— …

Dan Beachy-Quick

The senseless leaf   in the fevered hand …

Dan Beachy-Quick

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