Book: The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov

• Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry

  Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle
  That while you watched turned into pieces of snow

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• Kicks

  The fishermen on Lake Michigan, sometimes,
  For kicks, they spit two hunks of bait on hooks

  13 lines
• The Beautiful Lawn Sprinkler

  What gives it power makes it change its mind
  At each extreme, and lean its rising rain

  7 lines
• September, The First Day Of School

  My child and I hold hands on the way to school,
  And when I leave him at the first-grade door

  47 lines
• Threshold

  When in still air and still in summertime
  A leaf has had enough of this, it seems

  5 lines

• By me, right now

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