Poet Jeffery Beam
Poems

Entomology

All I want:

                            your affection

The rest:

                            the earth
                            mankind:

atoms
              of dust
Little insects

From The Beautiful Tendons, manuscript.

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Last updated: Friday, April 27, 2001