Eric Torgersen Door Poems
- 1. A Vacation
On the streets of Mérida, beggars and vendors
of shirts and hammocks and panama hats.
We perfect our no. But there's always something
we can't help saying yes to: I want to join
... - 2. Locked
Children tattooed, pierced and studded, dreadlocked;
parents panicked, indecisive, deadlocked.
Mother to daughter: live as you must, if you must;
... - 3. Back
Keep the tale, it's free, just bring the book back.
Eat the fish, but bring the line and hook back.
No one out here lives by bread alone;
... - 4. An Apple From Walt Whitman
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... - 5. Chanson Américaine
If I, as I drive the Caravan
with its nagging blister of rust
on the driver's side door
home from the office on the day
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