Michael C. Peterson Biography

For fury the Penitent may say, My Lord, if discretion
be the better part of valor then let me
be the screen door, and beyond it, the parade
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So long on Tantrum now distinction suffers.
The winding of the wind, the drag
of sun against the puny fleet, and nothing
left to spare its use to you, Crusoe,
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Something of occupation, something about
withdrawal. The lecturer said
that when the bevy wings or lands together—
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When gluttony is less than ruinous we
give it milder claim. Never
was there enough of what we wanted.
We named this Comfort, we
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One summer you suppose another summer
will be ransomed—at last—
the stark-rocking maple now willfully green,
the house like a boat like a house,
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