Poets/William Trowbridge

William Trowbridge

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How did we get here so suddenly, …

William Trowbridge

Betty Joan Perske, age nineteen, gives that look, …

William Trowbridge

It showed the War was as my father said: …

William Trowbridge

If it had worked out, I'd be on a train to Green Bay, …

William Trowbridge

The reception's not bad, across 50 years, …

William Trowbridge

How burdensome they seemed, wartime …

William Trowbridge

It chafed like some new skin we’d grown, …

William Trowbridge

On the Great Plains in March, …

William Trowbridge

The squirrels are spreading the rumor: no more monkey business. …

William Trowbridge

We real old. We …

William Trowbridge

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