Poets/James L. Dickey

James L. Dickey

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The sea here used to look …

James L. Dickey

So I would hear out those lungs, …

James L. Dickey

The states when they black out and lie there rolling when they turn …

James L. Dickey

They will soon be down …

James L. Dickey

Beginning to dangle beneath …

James L. Dickey

And now the green household is dark. …

James L. Dickey

Here they are. The soft eyes open. …

James L. Dickey

I have just come down from my father. …

James L. Dickey

In a stable of boats I lie still, …

James L. Dickey

The last time I saw Donald Armstrong …

James L. Dickey

Farm boys wild to couple …

James L. Dickey

Moth-force a small town always has, …

James L. Dickey

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