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Vassar Miller

I lived from 1924-1998. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

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  • Bitterness
    The old man coughs every morning
    as if he would spit up his life
    19 lines, 3 comments
  • Faux Pas
    I sat with you in a back pew when
    your father died; for you, stared at so long,
    11 lines
  • Beside a Deathbed
    Her spirit hiding among skin and bones
    In willingness and wariness waits death
    14 lines
  • Subterfuge
    I remember my father, slight,
    staggering in with his Underwood,
    22 lines, 1 comment
  • "Elegy for A Good Ole Boy"
    In the Sweet Bye and Bye
    Lord, give him the cheer
    5 lines
  • If I Had Wheels or Love
    I could make prayers or poems on and on,
    Relax or labor all the summer day,
    23 lines
  • The Grace of Remembrance
    May not the little time I had with you
    Be swallowed in the whirlpools of the years,
    14 lines
  • Renewal
    I, like a stone
    kneel while the waters
    11 lines
  • Prayer Upon Waking
    Give me, my God, this day
    the simple human grace
    18 lines
  • Insomniac’s Prayer
    I lie with my body knotted into a fist
    clenching against itself,
    22 lines
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