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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63
circa 1980-1989
You came to know that book by its covered distance,well remembered by the measureof the trudging barefoot mile
Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 72
circa 1980-1989
Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings,the quick-step dried and gone to the bone.Embrace the wall and face away from troublein the winter of our sleep.
Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 132
circa 1980-1989
The parson came. He said it well:Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on,not the sky.A little harvest of the sorrowsbetween the sentence and the grave.
Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102
circa 1980-1989
He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction,letting automation byto wipe the chimneys clean of issuesand make horizons in the sky
Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 67
circa 1980-1989
On the map it shows the turkey buzzards circling overheadto tell us who we are and what the odds.Don't count;a promise is no more than just a stall for extra time
Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 144
circa 1980-1989
A house laced straight into the wiry sore of righteousness,squared off and lonely,tingling at the sound of ice,the libertine who drowned.