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Amy Clampitt's Poetry, by title

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  • While the sun stops, or
    seems to, to define a term
    31 lines
  • For whatever did it—the cider
    at the Ship Inn, where the crowd
    39 lines
  • Whatever went wrong, that week, was more than weather:
    a shoddy streak in the fabric of the air of London
    42 lines
  • The West Village by then was changing; before long
    the rundown brownstones at its farthest edge
    72 lines
  • Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day,
    the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up
    77 lines
  • past parentage or gender
    beyond sung vocables
    60 lines
  • While you walk the water's edge,
    turning over concepts
    48 lines
  • The magpie and the bowerbird, its odd
    predilection unheard of by Marco Polo
    45 lines
  • Frame within frame, the evolving conversation
    is dancelike, as though two could play
    29 lines
  • a stone at dawn
    cold water in the basin
    16 lines, 3 comments
  • Lost aboard the roll of Kodac-
    olor that was to have super-
    34 lines
  • A vagueness comes over everything,
    as though proving color and contour
    30 lines
  • In memory of Father Flye, 1884-1985
    47 lines
  • cold nights on the farm, a sock-shod
    stove-warmed flatiron slid under
    26 lines
  • Daily the cortege of crumpled
    defunct cars
    36 lines
  • In those days the oatfields’
    fenced-in vats of running platinum,
    40 lines
  • Like the foghorn that's all lung,
    the wind chime that's all percussion,
    40 lines
  • By night a laddered diagram
    seen from the windows of this
    45 lines
  • In a year the nightingales were said to be so loud
    they drowned out slumber, and peafowl strolled screaming
    53 lines
  • An ingenuity too astonishing
    to be quite fortuitous is
    38 lines
  • Tufts, follicles, grubstake
    biennial rosettes, a low-
    21 lines
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