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the mountain

There is a mountainAnd on the mountain wild black clouds come racingAnd olden Thor takes and shakes the mountain hardThen…

the scalpel and the paintbrush

I carry my scalpel in my jacket pocket on the leftAnd in my right I put my brushIf I find…

four donkeys

I walk with four donkeys, all in a lineIn rough coats and hoods that cover their eyesEach keeps its head…

where do the birds go to die?

Where do they go to die, the birds?Those little brown ones, saySparrows, I think, they’re calledThey come to the balcony…

bow to the water

It breathes, silver-winking in the moonlightIt rises to the moon It blushes, orange-spangled in the morningIt follows the sun It…

rage

“Murderers!”, she yelledAt those who only tried to save some lives“You scum, you kill”, then spilledFrom through her flaming gills…

practicalities

Diamond dives through climbing thunder topsFalls on pretty faces looking upOf waving flowers of the meadowWild knots of Mary’s gleaming…

commonplace poem

I read my poems down in townBy the ancient abbey groundsSome stopped to listen, even to applaudGood Lord!Others just walked,…

the overcoat

Then the world was cold like snowAt least maybe I felt it soI wore a long dark overcoatNow it’s faded,…

heroes of a different kind of freedom

the gardener Read The Gardener of Kabul the trumpeter Read The Trumpeter of Kabul