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There are so many things I don’t believe…
There are so many things I don’t believe… There are so many things I don’t believe.
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Stephen Kuusisto
And so I have lived like a silhouette
And so I have lived like a silhouette… Darkling as I am I may not get home Today I’m walking In a forest full of wind
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Stephen Kuusisto
A Brief Essay on Romanticism
A Brief Essay on Romanticism We live in some nameless state Falling continuously, falling Illuminated and fitful.
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Tracks
Tracks I have a friend from boyhood who is still alive Though he was (and is) wholly imaginary And sometimes he’s my dead brother Sometimes he’s a small…
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A Small Homemade Whistle
This morning, early, bending to tie my sneakers I thought about the dead, how they do us no harm.
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I’ve lost many friends in this life…
I’ve lost many friends in this life, some from illness, others from painful experiences.
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Open and Closed Space
I ask you what it means to be a sufferer in this life, O Lord, but you keep silent in your golden storm.
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