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James K. Baxter

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To lie on a beach after …

James K. Baxter

As I come down the hill from Toro Poutini’s house …

James K. Baxter

The wish to climb a ladder to the loft …

James K. Baxter

About twilight we came to the whitewashed pub …

James K. Baxter

The small grey cloudy louse that nests in my beard …

James K. Baxter

One writes telling me I am her guiding light …

James K. Baxter

Three dark buds for the Trinity …

James K. Baxter

There was a message. I have forgotten it. …

James K. Baxter

These unshaped islands, on the sawyer’s bench, …

James K. Baxter

Summer brings out the girls in their green dresses …

James K. Baxter

Hard, heavy, slow, dark, …

James K. Baxter

I advise rest; the farmhouse …

James K. Baxter

Often in summer, on a tarred bridge plank standing, …

James K. Baxter

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