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Complete Poems

Sparrow
all poems © by Sparrow

Plain Thomas

"Just call me Plain Thomas," he
said. "I speak the truth,
and I have no home."

"Where do you stay now?"

"In a wigwam
I built on Deer Creek --
but in two weeks I'll be gone."

"Where will you go?"
"West."

"How far West?"
"Japan."

Cat

A cat says:
"me-you, me-you."

Prison Money

cigarettes
knives
pornography
rings
candy

Foresty Meal

Acorns, mushrooms,
and pine bark
wine.


First Ugly

"You are the first
ugly man I loved,"
she said,
fingering my tie.

Heard In A Dream

"he has pigs buried in his hair"


Tippy-Toes

Standing
on
his
tippy-toes
Tom
could
see
Canada.


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