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Susan Kelly-DeWitt

...the blossoms open
like pink thimbles
and that black dollop
of shine called
bumblebee stumbles in.

Valerie, you need to offer a line or two, so the next poster can answer it.

Thanks, for playing. You answered my last post correctly with poet's name, but you didn't identify the title of the poem.

Again, thanks, it's great to have another player!

The great soul
Flew from the Creator
Bearing manna of hope
For his country
Starving severely from an absence of compassion

Who is the poet and what is the title of this poem?

The great soul
Flew from the Creator
Bearing manna of hope
For his country
Starving severely from an absence of compassion

ANSWER: Maya Angelou's "Reverend Martin Luther King"

NEXT:
Standing there, his big gun smoking,
Rabbit-scared, alone.

Standing there, his big gun smoking,
Rabbit-scared, alone.

Answer: "Southern Cop" by Sterling A. Brown

Next:

Tell em to take my bare walls down
my cement abutments
their parties thereof
and clause of claws

Tell em to take my bare walls down
my cement abutments
their parties thereof
and clause of claws
ANSWER: "Foreclosure" by Lorine Niedecker

NEXT:
Your bark is wrinkled
more deeply than any face
you live so slowly

Your bark is wrinkled
more deeply than any face
you live so slowly

Answer: "Mulberry" by Craig Arnold

Next:

The fact that no birds sing.
A blackness called sorrow.
Lasts seldom more than seven years.

The fact that no birds sing.
A blackness called sorrow.
Lasts seldom more than seven years.
ANSWER: Jan Erik Vold "THE FACT THAT NO BIRDS SING"


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I kept waiting
for the thud
of your crash as I
sprinted to catch up,