Poets/Peter Cole

Peter Cole

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And so their pounded hearts …

Peter Cole

Here in the gloaming, …

Peter Cole

Over the border the barrier winds, …

Peter Cole

Freud could never be certain, he said, …

Peter Cole

Who’d have known this sadness would turn …

Peter Cole

Why are you here? …

Peter Cole

Fucked art thou, with luck, o reader within the palace within the palette within the impatience within, who tilts his letters into the light of the mind’s muttering unto itself, releasing their sounds to the whirlpool fierce of an ear to draw creations in— …

Peter Cole

Either the world is coming together, …

Peter Cole

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