Robert Dawson Poems

Rafters

Hauling rafters out of Mason City
across Dakotas when no roads
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Hepatitis

Flat on my back, a foot-square paperback
of The New Golden Bough propped
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Catfish

Where can I bury the gills
and guts of all the fish I caught
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SHELLEY

His arms St. Andrew's cross flat on his chest,
helpless while Leman's beer froth whitecaps clapped
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TARZAN

Of hartebeast, waterbuck,
wildebeast, the nuzzle-nuzzle
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FORT HILL

Dogs
mammaldom's Boston Irish
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ANNE SEXTON

MUSIC SWIMS BACK TO ME
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During the War

My age during the war, my old man had a pin-
pricked ear. His war effort was hauling loads
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CAR HOUSE

When mother's '40 Nash gave up the ghost
father stalled it in the dunes outside the court
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BIBLE CAMP

1. January, Caracalla's Baths were bare
as grocery crates. The codger
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