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Poetry Corner: Thomas Stanton “A Benicia Poem”

July 13, 2018 by Thomas Stanton Leave a Comment

…train once
ran to it
biggest ships in the world
leathered
tethered
busted
and full
tied to it
gold in a drugstore
teeth to the skeins
rest and repose
daughters of the light
men of blue and bold
poems here
poems about here too
fairly democratic
duck bones
turquoise gusts
seagull
and guts
odes to mom and country
bent on americana
and beautiful as a dream.

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