Poets/Hayden Carruth

Hayden Carruth

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Three people come where no people belong any more. …

Hayden Carruth

Fear. Three bears …

Hayden Carruth

Coming home with the last load I ride standing …

Hayden Carruth

I just had the old Dodge in the shop …

Hayden Carruth

Both of us had been close …

Hayden Carruth

The northern lights. I wouldn’t have noticed them …

Hayden Carruth

Liebe, meine liebe, I had not hoped …

Hayden Carruth

You died. And because you were Greek they gave you …

Hayden Carruth

Was I so poor …

Hayden Carruth

Scrambled eggs and whiskey …

Hayden Carruth

I sing of Morrisville …

Hayden Carruth

You rose from our embrace and the small light spread …

Hayden Carruth

You may think it strange, Sam, that I'm writing …

Hayden Carruth

Like all his people he felt at home in the forest. …

Hayden Carruth

Just over the horizon a great machine of death is roaring and rearing. …

Hayden Carruth

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