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Poems by Tom Sharp

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• About this book
• Station – At a provincial station in the fog at night
• Kitchen – The kitchen seemed as big as the whole house
• Prison cell – The classic prison cell has stone walls
• Bridge – Halfway across the Ballard bridge
• Clock – Here stands my tallcase clock
• Flute – Wind through wood, breath through bones.
• Lake – Something is hidden under its surface
• Book – Our reader becomes the book unread after the middle
• Tree – They planted a tree in a pot
• Bird – Improbable feathered gift, spirit of air
• Replica – Over time, for many years, I have tried to be true to myself
• Beach – The beach is empty after midnight
• Coffee cup – Is it the coffee or the cup that I find so comforting
• Lamp – By the couch its pool of light
• Ferry – We don’t float across on our own
• Rattle – Its pink clock face says 18 after 8
• Bones – Stick figures of anatomy or not even that
• Train – A rumble at the end of our block
• Rosetta stone – As I stood in the British Museum
• Windmills – Windmills turn inexorably, as in
• Waves – The migrants boat is hidden by waves
• Wooden bowl – My brother cut, dried,
• Mountain – A mountain doesn’t need
• Planets – like us, wanderers