Evie Shockley Clean Poems
- 1. On New Year's Eve
we make midnight a maquette of the year:
frostlight glinting off snow to solemnize
the vows we offer to ourselves in near
silence: the competition shimmerwise
... - 2. Where Is It Clean
when your mother can rise from her place
on the pew during the early service,
early enough that the sun barely fills the sky
... - 3. Notes To My Nieces (or, Essays In Fortune-telling )
when i was younger, trees
were green, money was green, money
grew on trees, or trees grew up
and became money. now, money is clearly
... - 4. A Sonnet For Stanley Tookie Williams
celebrations: what a star
announcedâ??a birthâ??and then a chance to fold
a year away, pull one fresh from the drawer,
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