Best Rereading Poems

Rereading the poems of others
and my own. Community across
time and graves. What's left
exceeds in significance
one's last moment. Yet
his last moment must have been
exceedingly important
for the poet.

Nothing he did that day will seem meaningful.
While we prosecute the war
a pileated woodpecker and red squirrel
compete for sunflower seeds.
A...

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I've written things that were good,
and I've written things that were bad.
I've written things that I first thought were good,
but upon my first rereading were already starting to lose their luster.

I'll give it a while, and then come back and check on it,
because a little...

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The re-read (poet)

Hemingway was a writer suffering from a disabling inhibition, 
the conversation he had with women in his books are based
 on wishes and not reality.
Women in his life were stronger than him, he tried 
to compensate by bawdy behavior, it always ended with...

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