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The Reasons.(Baby Boomer Issue)(Poem)
The Reasons I came for the impassive face of Taos Mountain, its stoic calm, green veins, rock thrusts. To walk beneath the giant cottonwoods of...
Prairie Schooner, 09/22/09 by Becker, Robin · More from publication -
The Plum Tree.(Baby Boomer Issue)(Poem)
for Carolyn Like Shiva, many-armed, already ancient when my friend bought the place, the tree's cracked limbs clawed the air,...
Prairie Schooner, 09/22/09 by Becker, Robin · More from publication -
What Is the Likelihood.(Baby Boomer Issue)(Poem)
of my seeing, in New Mexico, her New York apartment building on TV, a special about the meat-packing district and high-end retail replacing...
Prairie Schooner, 09/22/09 by Becker, Robin · More from publication -
Holiday.(Poem)
We slept and woke to the sound of crashing surf. Across the room, my friend lay with her book; I listened to the spacious hour, its humane breath...
Prairie Schooner, 06/22/09 by Becker, Robin · More from publication -
Hospice.(Poem)
I wanted to believe in it, the word softer than hospital but still not home -- Like any other frame house on the street, it had a...
Prairie Schooner, 06/22/09 by Becker, Robin · More from publication -
Venetian.(Poem)
For a week, the grandeur and mass of palace fa çades sloshed in the waters of the Grand Canal, our happiness fugitive as the...
Prairie Schooner, 06/22/09 by Becker, Robin · More from publication -
Repair.(Poem)
More stall than store, his cramped space on Carmine smelled of Cat's Paw leather cream polish. A belt, a boot, our shoes for soles: he...
Prairie Schooner, 06/22/09 by Becker, Robin · More from publication -
Storm King Sculpture Park.(Poem)
We circled fabricated girders, welded, hoisted, their surfaces scored. Around us, a meadow marked, pierced with immense...
Prairie Schooner, 06/22/09 by Becker, Robin · More from publication -
Prairie Dogs.(Poem)
for Khyber Oser and in memory of Matthew Shepard They tenanted the far high school field, the dispossessed Lotaburger...
Prairie Schooner, 06/22/09 by Becker, Robin · More from publication -
Rescue Parable.(Poem)
Though saved from starvation and given his own name, bowl, bed; though he wears the tags of ownership and veterinary care; though he sleeps in...
Prairie Schooner, 06/22/09 by Becker, Robin · More from publication
