Poets/Rodney Jones

Rodney Jones

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From the first, I was too reluctant, achieving by dribs and drabs, …

Rodney Jones

Maybe a sin, indecent for sure—dope, …

Rodney Jones

It was July. I must have been sixteen or seventeen, …

Rodney Jones

The tortures of lumbago consumed Aunt Madge, …

Rodney Jones

When the first mechanical picker had stripped the field, …

Rodney Jones

If I ever get over the bodies of women, I am going to think of the rain, …

Rodney Jones

The front seats filled last. Laggards, buffoons, …

Rodney Jones

Gram of mania, animated pepper, …

Rodney Jones

I see the mosquito kneeling on the soft underside of my arm, kneeling …

Rodney Jones

People who are like waves, rising and falling. …

Rodney Jones

It was a green barn coat from L. L. Bean …

Rodney Jones

On the porch, unbreeched shotgun dangling …

Rodney Jones

I go inside the wolf …

Rodney Jones

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