Today's poem: Elegy by Thom Gunn
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Conversation
Reposting yesterday's poem: Under a Wild Green Fig Tree by Edward Hirsch
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Reposting the poem of the day before: Middle Passage by Robert Hayden
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Here's another poem by Thom Gunn: Still Life
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And another: In The Post Office by Thom Gunn
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And my favorite, mostly because it's about one of the first men I met when I moved to SF, someone I played soccer with. Thom Gunn and I had his friendship in common: The J Car by Thom Gunn
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This was the poem of the day five years ago:
Lapis Lazuli by W. B. Yeats
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This was the poem of the day four years ago:
Count the Almonds by Paul Celan
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This was the poem of the day three years ago:
In The Midst of Life by Tadeusz Różewicz
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This was the poem of the day last year:
Graduation Day by Matthew Zapruder
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The Feel of Hands by Thom Gunn
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Considering the Snail by Thom Gunn
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Front Bar at the Lone Star by Thom Gunn
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As if hands were enough
To hold an avalanche off.
The Man with Night Sweats by Thom Gunn
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