Terence Winch Poems

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1.
Fishbowl

I can't think of anything else
to talk with you about. We have
discussed our jobs, our daily commute,
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2.
Morning Prayers

Old people cry too much.
They walk in the morning
to the railway station.
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3.
Proclamation For My Father In 1965

Whereas time has caught up with me and the boiler
broken down again, and day after day it snows and snows
and there I am, with my shovel, in the dark
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4.
Sic Transit Gloria

Guy asks me for $1.80 on the subway.
White guy, bald, shirt and tie.
Says they towed his car with his wallet in it.
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5.
Urban Turtles

Small green couch in the living room. I come home at night and sit in it.
'Law & Order' is on TV. I have a glass of cheap cabernet and make eggs
for dinner. It gets later and later. I hit the mute button and listen
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6.
Noise Under Glass

An old man arrived at my door with light bulbs.
I opened the door a crack
and asked what he wanted. He said he wanted
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7.
Comfort

Father Ray Byrne quickly became
a star. He played sports, danced,
sang, told jokes. He was a man
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8.
Mysteries

All last night I kept speaking in this
archaic language, because I had been reading
Poe and thinking about him. I read 'The Murders
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9.
Ghosts

In the rain falling on her.
In wide open space I think of.
I wake up without you, smoking
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10.
Civilized Atmospheres

The bar is filled with a foul odor, something
to do with the sewage system. People don't mind
one bit. They smoke, talk, make time, drink, dance.
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