Poets/Robert Wrigley

Robert Wrigley

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As a hoodoo-voodoo, get-you-back-to-me tool, …

Robert Wrigley

Because I have come to the fence at night, …

Robert Wrigley

Lucy Doolin, first day on the job, stroked his goatee …

Robert Wrigley

Spring, and the first full crop of dandelions gone …

Robert Wrigley

You want a piece of me …

Robert Wrigley

Under dust plush as a moth’s wing, …

Robert Wrigley

About the only thing I thought I knew …

Robert Wrigley

Of the two spoiled, barn-sour geldings …

Robert Wrigley

More oblique the eagle’s angle …

Robert Wrigley

Called out of dream by the pitch and screech, …

Robert Wrigley

Sleepy and suburban at dusk, …

Robert Wrigley

The birdhouse made from a gourd is wired …

Robert Wrigley

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