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Today's poem is "While You Were Away"

from Asheville Poetry Review

Richard Jackson is author of nine books of poems, including Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (Autumn House), Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected (Ashland Poetry Press), and Heartwall, winner of the 2000 Juniper Prize (University of Massachusetts Press).

Other poems by Richard Jackson in Verse Daily:
February 17, 2011:   "Visionary" "I could feel a few dying stars hovering over my shoulder..."
November 19, 2009:   "Point of View" "While his memories pace back and forth like expectant..."
June 10, 2009:   "After All This" "After all this love, after the birds rip like scissors..."
July 3, 2002:  "Not Here" "My days are deer leaping from sight..."

Books by Richard Jackson:

Other poems on the web by Richard Jackson:
Five poems
"Silences"
Four poems
"No Turn On Red"
Six poems

Richard Jackson's Website.

About Asheville Poetry Review:

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Other poems from Asheville Poetry Review in Verse Daily:
February 17, 2011:   "Visionary" by Richard Jackson
January 10, 2008:   "The World Wakes Up" by Andrew Michael Roberts
January 8, 2008:   "Adam And Steve" by Catherine Carter
January 16, 2007:   "Bass Line" by Betsy Sholl
January 10, 2007:   "Studebaker" by Gerald Stern

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