Poets/E. Ethelbert Miller

E. Ethelbert Miller

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you lie in bed listening, …

E. Ethelbert Miller

Please forgive me for forgetting. …

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sometimes the deaf …

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we would take the train to brooklyn …

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andre’s father …

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3. …

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here …

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the king’s haiku …

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our friendship …

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Dear America, my love. …

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“I can’t breathe,” he said. …

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i suppose i should be …

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i will die this month. how …

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i will die this month. how …

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death surrounds itself with the living …

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only language …

E. Ethelbert Miller

in the early twenties …

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inside the car …

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I take her in my hands …

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when trees bend funny and out of shape …

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in cuba …

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After reading my obituary …

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on the top shelf …

E. Ethelbert Miller

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