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Poems by Hugo Williams

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Billy's Rain

... when you put your hand over my mouth ...

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Siren Song

... 'Tell me in two words', goes the recording, ...

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Unobtainable

... in its efforts to get through to someone ...

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Timer

... to let us in. The green of the paintwork we slid down ...

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Bar Italia

... and you will be pushing through the other customers, ...

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Saturday Morning

... on top of their heads-a white-haired old gentlemen, ...

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Her News

... starting again with someone new, finding a new place, ...

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During An Absence

... for her to bring back the purpose into our lives ...

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The Last Man

...  One more time, the distant sail appears,  ...

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"Wreck" and "rise above"

... urge, carved in the marble arch of the old library ...

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Ex Libris

... pages of maple, the wind leafing through to the end  ...

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Bailing Out-A Poem for the 1970s

...   There is nothing here but words, the calls  ...

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The Girl with Bees in Her Hair

...   At first they seemed just errant bits of shade,  ...

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High Noon at Los Alamos

... white heat coiling in the blinded eye: to these malign  ...

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Hunting Manual

... that once roamed free, but sits now, fat and hooded,  ...