Poets/Sandra McPherson

Sandra McPherson

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Heads were rolling down the highway in high slat trucks. …

Sandra McPherson

White lather on black soap— …

Sandra McPherson

I accompany this life’s events like a personal journalist: …

Sandra McPherson

The child I left your class to have …

Sandra McPherson

We are dropping one and gaining two—. …

Sandra McPherson

This water flows dark red …

Sandra McPherson

“What can or ought …

Sandra McPherson

They so liked breast milk; …

Sandra McPherson

One conversation, one only, remaining: …

Sandra McPherson

Lions don’t need your help. In the Serengeti, …

Sandra McPherson

I was making a new friend, …

Sandra McPherson

The man vending needles at our door …

Sandra McPherson

The names of things—sparks! …

Sandra McPherson

B.D. was a decent …

Sandra McPherson

I know a little what it is like, once here at high tide …

Sandra McPherson

A girl moaning: I don’t …

Sandra McPherson

... who spoke late …

Sandra McPherson

Mr. Hollingshead fell on his violin-playing wrist today. …

Sandra McPherson

Friend, remember how you showed us beasts love beauty? …

Sandra McPherson

She was in love with the same danger …

Sandra McPherson

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