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Poems by Galway Kinnell

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After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

... and smile and touch arms across his little, startling muscled body - ...

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Blackberry Eating

... lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries ...

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Daybreak

... into it and lay still, and by the time ...

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Poem Of Night

... An eye, dark, Wormed with far-off, unaccountable lights ...

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Telephoning In Mexican Sunlight

... " I thought, OK this shirt will clothe the other in me ...

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Wait

... rehearsed by the sorrows, play itself into total exhaustion ...

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Oatmeal

... I am aware that a leftover baked potato is damp, slippery, and simultaneaously ...

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Two Seasons

... Weary of being mute and undefiled II I spoke to you that last winter morning ...

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How Could You Not

... and clouds are making their shadowy ways along the horizon ...

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The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye To His Poetry Students

... the game I had of trying to guess which one of you, this time, ...

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St. Francis And The Sow

... it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing ...

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Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair In The Moonlight

... where white wine stands in upward opening glasses,and if you commit then, as we did, the error ...

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Fergus Falling

... its little steam in the afternoon,pond where Clarence Akley came on Sunday mornings to cut down ...

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The Perch

... Then a rifle sounded, several times, quite loud, ...

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The Cellist

... in full yowl, clubbed, bagged, bicycled off, haggled open, ...