Lamont Palmer Poems

Death surrounds us with blatant arms.
A sanitation worker dies and no one
cares, but banshee phones striking at midnight,
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'All that we are not stares back at what we are.' - W. H. Auden
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I was a year and a half old when
Two, loud cracks punctured western confidence
Through air; my future head snapped back in grief.
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Snow claims walkways: restless crystals,
like they are at its mercy, but who really is,
which is the test of wind, or the speed of air.
Intimately involved, shovel and man? Most
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Shrunken face: brown, refined and small.
Who reduced you to this diminutive size?
When did you become fragility's core?
You scare me. My days tremble like a cold leaf.
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'The world is myself; life is myself'. - Wallace Stevens


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Just when I put my mortality behind me
Somebody I know dies; the scourge of daylight
Drops its existential contents and mental bricks
Onto your lap, the comfort zone of life.
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Where is the religious eye? Morning is dark.
In Pennsylvania, a tear has left
youngish ducts, and blood has replaced it.
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Lilies opened into the outer room.
They almost overshadowed the entire place.
It was there in bright recesses the talk
Began, the colors, the aromas filling what
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Drenched assumptions were all we had.
It was alright, she said,
for umbrellas to be panaceas,
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