"Not tenderness in the eye but the brute need
to see accurately: over the ridge on a trail
deep in Tennessee, the great poet looked out and saw
the vista that confederate soldiers saw
as they rode over the edge rather than surrender."
(My poem "The Vista" is featured today by the Academy of American Poets)
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2 comments:
Your poems take my breath away on a regular basis. (I wish I could think of a more original way to put it, though.)
Thank you, Andrew. You just made me blush...
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