I Bend Like a Reed When that cleansing wind comes When that wave exceeds the shore When that car enters the crosswalk All that fragile metal and boards and bone Is overwhelmed Be the waltzing grass at the bottom of Pringle Creek Green, alive, shelter and sheltered All day vacillate back and forth Sipping light […]
Phillip X Levine
Phillip X Levine has been poetry editor for Chronogram magazine since June 2003. He is also the president of the Woodstock Poetry Society. "All the people I was going to be when I grew up - they're still here"
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