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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 […]

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Poetry Corner: Thomas Stanton “Provo Utah 1951”

March 10, 2017 by Editor Leave a Comment

I saw you standing There Waiting At the bus Station Should I Just drive On through Wave from My Heart We are through… Or Slow Down And Take In Your Face Your Way Of Standing Lost Slightly Askew In This World Abandoned By Anyone You Lent Faith To Your birthday Was the Same as mine […]

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