Michael Hofmann Poems

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1.
Cricket

Another one of those Pyrrhic experiences. Call it
an expyrrhience. A day at Lords, mostly rain,
one of those long-drawn-out draws so perplexing to Americans.
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2.
Night

It's all right
Unless you're either lonely or under attack.
That strange effortful
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3.
Baselitz and His Generation

For Hai-Dang Phan

I have no doubt where they will go. They walk
the one life offered from the many chosen.
 — Robert Lowell
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4.
Venice Beach

Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.
— Andrew Marvell
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5.
The Years

Nothing required an account of me
And still I didn't give one.
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6.
For Adam

In that aftertime
I wasn't writing. I never wrote,
I didn't know what the aftertime was for.
I felt little, collected nothing.
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