Eric Torgersen Long Poems
- 1. Locked
Children tattooed, pierced and studded, dreadlocked;
parents panicked, indecisive, deadlocked.
Mother to daughter: live as you must, if you must;
... - 2. An Apple From Walt Whitman
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... - 3. 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.
... - 4. The Man Who Broke Up The Dinner Party Answers
It made me feel small, like a husband,
and I never married, never owned
a table worth turning over, china
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