Eric Torgersen Blind Poems
- 1. The Lone Ranger Rides Off
Thank God he's gone,
on his horse
of all colors-
... - 2. Re: That
That was no language that was your life.
That was a punning linguist.
That was the headline Author Gets Off.
That was an offer of amnesty and amnesia,
... - 3. No Dancer / Still Walking
In one of the open-air restaurants
along the beach at Progreso
three shy pretty Indian girls
danced for us with trays bottles
... - 4. My Blindness
Once I woke up in the dark and thought I was blind. There was no light at all. There's always some light.
Blind, I was calm in that perfect dark. Friends would come, and I'd tell them what they had to do. It would be all right.
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