Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN MEMORIAM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH


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First Line: This warmish night of the thaw
Last Line: And vanish into the mist
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The


This warmish night of the thaw
in January a beech chunk
smoldering in my Herald
No. 22A box stove suddenly
takes fire and burns
hot, or rather I suddenly
who was reading the sweet
and bitter poems of Paul
Goodman dead last summer
am aware how my shed
becomes a furnace, and taking
my shovel I ladle
a great mush of snow
into the stove's mouth
to quieten it
and then step quickly
outside again to watch
the plume of steam rise
from my stovepipe straightly
and vanish into the mist.


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98368-0271, www.cc.press.org




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