How Men Pray: PoemsPoetry. Prize-winning fiction author Philip Deaver's poetry is praised as "snapshots of the legendary America of promise and disappointment. They are the poems of an equilibrist, a storyteller whose sense of poetry is a mixture of colloquial address, irony, and tenderness toward our losses and our loneliness" - Carol Frost. |
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... dreams you could not have lived more perfectly the way you were destined . Never once did you raise your voice and there's not a page here where you made a choice . Sweet dreams , goodbye , I'm tired of worrying about 37.
... dreams you could not have lived more perfectly the way you were destined . Never once did you raise your voice and there's not a page here where you made a choice . Sweet dreams , goodbye , I'm tired of worrying about 37.
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... dream I have that comes day or night ; it's a sound dream , the sound of my father's wreck , a wild skid , the metallic smash and spray of glass . So fast and then silence , like the silence out here . I try to listen deep into that ...
... dream I have that comes day or night ; it's a sound dream , the sound of my father's wreck , a wild skid , the metallic smash and spray of glass . So fast and then silence , like the silence out here . I try to listen deep into that ...
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... dream and remembering , of the slow , shining way the past swallows us and we survive , almost . Here , there's a father's watch with blood on it , a sister's small pink dress , a mother's four weeks to live , a grandfather's magnifying ...
... dream and remembering , of the slow , shining way the past swallows us and we survive , almost . Here , there's a father's watch with blood on it , a sister's small pink dress , a mother's four weeks to live , a grandfather's magnifying ...
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afternoons anyway AUGUST 14 binoculars bird BIRD STORY breathe Buick chair childhood chrome club house comes concrete Corona dark dead Deaver DIMINUENDO dogs dream edge emotional intelligence equinox eyes fading father feel fence flat Florida Review flying friends ghost glad glass going gone goodbye gray haze headstone hear heart Illinois Lac Seul listened live look metal middle mile morning mother move nearby never Night Light noon Okay parking lot Philip F pink PRAY pulling quiet rain remember road Rollins College runs shadow shelter SHONEY'S sidewalks silent SKYDIVING slide smell smile SOLSTICE somewhere sound stand of pines staring steel storm summer switch engines switchman telescope tell there's things tonight town Traveler traveler's trees trilobite turn VANISHING POINT voice waiting walk warm watch waved William Matthews window yard