Pit Love
...Line up the front post
Cheek pressed to the stock
Call me Paparazzo
I'm taking the shot
And I don't miss
I've been enamoured with the way that you talk
Between you and me
I've been incendiary
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Categories:
saxton, war,
Form: Free verse
Before the Cradle Falls
...Bitten
The wind has sharpened teeth
Flesh can scream
Never the same
Unforgettable pain
Empathy in action
The Saxton the Saxton
Turned!...
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Categories:
saxton, poverty, sleep, winter,
Form: Free verse
Winter, 1948
...WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep ...
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Categories:
saxton, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse