Leonard Brooks Poems

he gave me the tiller, gave me the keel
to push the boat out, feel
the water underneath and face
the gale smile at the horizon
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Heaving wet
Emerging
From an unseen rupture
Torn
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He came fiercely into the world(ward)
After all of that time
Immediately searching
His father tried to imagine a prouder man
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The ferocious resilience
To join us
Only confirmed the love
He was conceived in
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