Poets/Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae

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I came to campus thinking I’d see wreckage smoke …

Shane McCrae

America I feel your guilty shrugging …

Shane McCrae

What do I know about boats rudder keel …

Shane McCrae

When Richmond is finally one of the …

Shane McCrae

They put me in a dead boy’s clothes dead Joseph …

Shane McCrae

The joke you hear today you’ll hear …

Shane McCrae

Far off a car alarm is screaming stop …

Shane McCrae

How can I ever know if I was happy …

Shane McCrae

Before it disappears …

Shane McCrae

The hastily assembled angel thinks …

Shane McCrae

The hastily assembled angel wandered …

Shane McCrae

The hastily assembled angel wanders …

Shane McCrae

Humans being made in the image not of God …

Shane McCrae

Except most things weren’t clouds everything there …

Shane McCrae

The hastily assembled angel flies …

Shane McCrae

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