Poets/David Wagoner

David Wagoner

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I've watched his eyelids sag, spring open …

David Wagoner

They’re tipping their battered derbies and striding forward …

David Wagoner

Right after the bomb, even before the ceiling …

David Wagoner

He approaches her, trailing his whole fortune, …

David Wagoner

That child was dangerous. That just-born …

David Wagoner

Under the sagging clotheslines of crepe paper …

David Wagoner

Out of the nursery and into the garden …

David Wagoner

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