Poets/Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov

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Still half drunk, after a night at cards, …

Howard Nemerov

This admirable gadget, when it is …

Howard Nemerov

I tell you that I see her still …

Howard Nemerov

Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn …

Howard Nemerov

Roughly figured, this man of moderate habits, …

Howard Nemerov

Earth’s Wrath at our assaults is slow to come …

Howard Nemerov

This morning we shall spend a few minutes …

Howard Nemerov

loquitur the sparrow in the Zoo …

Howard Nemerov

People are putting up storm windows now, …

Howard Nemerov

Dear old equivocal and closest friend, …

Howard Nemerov

By the dry road the fathers cough and spit, …

Howard Nemerov

Late in November, on a single night …

Howard Nemerov

This morning, between two branches of a tree …

Howard Nemerov

On the long shore, lit by the moon …

Howard Nemerov

A door sunk in a hillside, with a bolt …

Howard Nemerov

It is true, that even in the best-run state …

Howard Nemerov

I …

Howard Nemerov

A mile out in the marshes, under a sky …

Howard Nemerov

The house is so quiet now …

Howard Nemerov

Among the high-branching, leafless boughs …

Howard Nemerov

For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead, …

Howard Nemerov

My dear, I wonder if before the end …

Howard Nemerov

The world is full of mostly invisible things, …

Howard Nemerov

Adorable images, …

Howard Nemerov

The cursive crawl, the squared-off characters …

Howard Nemerov

Naked before the glass she said, …

Howard Nemerov

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