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Maxwell Bodenheim
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : Whenever a Love Dies Within You
Whenever a love dies within you,
Griefs, phosphorescent with unborn tears,
Cut...
2.031 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : We Met Upon Nearby Hill-Tops
We met upon nearby hill-tops of our lives
And shook the dust from us, revealing flame...
2.280 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : We Blew a Luminous Confusion of Thoughts
We blew a luminous confusion of thoughts
Upon the silence of our souls,
...
2.209 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : Vaudeville Moment
They have carved a battle
Across your hard face:
Transfigured conflict,...
1.862 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : Upon an Arched Sarcophagus of Pain
Upon an arched sarcophagus of pain
Are figures painted in arrested embraces
...
2.386 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : Two Women on a Street
This street is callous apathy
In a scale of greys and browns.
Its black roof-...
2.165 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : Two Walls, Dizzy with Rain-Touch
Two walls, dizzy with rain-touch
And suffused with gauzily amorous sunlight,
...
2.533 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : Twilight Pushes Down Your Eyes
Twilight pushes down your eyes
With shimmering, pregnant fingers
That leave...
953 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : Turmoil in a Morgue
Negro,
Chinaman,
White servant-girl,
Russian woman,
Are learning...
837 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : Track-Workers
The rails you carry cut into your hands,
Like the sharp lips of an unsought lover....
874 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : To an Enemy
I despise my friends more than you.
I would have known myself but they stood before...
699 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : To a Man
Master of earnest equilibrium,
You are a Christ made delicate
By centuries of...
543 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : To a Friend
Your head is steel cut into drooping lines
That make a mask satirically meek:
...
934 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : To a Discarded Steel Rail
Straight strength pitched into the surliness of the ditch:
A soul you have--strength...
705 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : Summer Evening: New York Subway-Station
Perspiring violence derides
The pathetic collapse of dirt.
An effervescence of...
740 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : Steel-Mills: South Chicago
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This red hush toppling over the sky,
Wanders one step toward...
755 Sat,14-May-2011
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Maxwell Bodenheim Poems : South State Street: Chicago
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Rows of blankly box-like buildings
Raise their sodden...
906 Sat,14-May-2011

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