| Stephen Paul Miller Poem for James Baldwin |
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| The brown bear watches the buffalo's face, Sees a secret in his eyes And puts off going to work. In the secret, She observes a storm, like a holiday. A litter bug flies by. Finally the brown bear Knows she1ll never figure it out And plays the golf course in his eyes |
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| Stephen Paul Miller is the author of The Seventies Now (Duke University Press) and Art is Boring for the Same Reason We Stayed Out of Vietnam (Domestic Press) and co-editor of The Scene of My Selves: New Work on the New York School Poets (National Poetry Foundation). His poetry has been published in Talisman, Best American Poetry 1994, Columbia Review, Paterson, Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Poetry New York, B City and elsewhere. He is an associate professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. | |
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