alphabetical list of poems by Bob Young

it feels like a fire-hose was
just shot up my
ass

I cannot stop laughing
this happiest laugh

one I’ve ...
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bound antelope!

stood sky while still

waited and the prairie

rolled the earth gently

gishi bian
2007

upper-class life

venerable image prayer

perfect about change

no tricks

they are told

just the events wished to convey

real ...
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a secluded swelling longboat
a lone captain
a deep and undulating lapis wave
 
a single gold leaf
a twirling drift
...
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for the cross, they went
for an inhale was hard
he gurgled a bit now and then
he died

once ...
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there’s a BBQ tonight

everybody is welcome

that sounds good
huh

yea
BBQ

triple marinated ribs
all put on by ...
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since i was 12

why

I’ll tell ya

that’s when mom

started to make me

lace my own

Converse high-tops

birth twice aisle

camping recreational standard vehicle

harvest exotic fruit red yellows

cop stomach flashing critical

snow cold leaves laugh

at a dinner tonight
a small dinner
put on by Cathy’s big brother
my college roommate
before the three of ...
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daily sunshine

come for summer gone

hungry ate across

little hare lake

foot above

fresh snow floated

it was a get ...
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so the day moves on

no incredible happenings

a bit of wind

a bit of rain

sparrows litter the concrete

how am I
well, iv,
I’d have ta say I’m fine
a bit tired
two days being out six hours ...
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to even try to
empty the ocean
is only a dream only a…

yea

it’s nice to be inside the ...
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you are known to never
not
persist.
known, however, to
surprise with a coax a
steeplechase a
bark
a ...
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all you say i
said

etched sponges

floating

before a blue and pink sunset

i rock on the porch

and notice.

-bazers cloy 28 oct ...
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why

boats

that was the ponder 

and fishermen

why would Jesus (a carpenter)

ask fishermen (experts ...
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it’s, for me, L.,

a river

yea
i’m sorta blue

bad news on the
cancer now

shit, N., sometimes
i feel like somethin’ is
chasin’ me

if we heard

we might
not (list)en
at all
 
“here’s some change – go get your mother some flowers” 

have you been hit
mauled
whipped
raped
or otherwise violated

                    ...
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winsome tracks exploding
if winsome is the goal
then it’s the end too
because suffering attends our every move
whether ...
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Lush bosky and supple fields near freshwater
The Shepherd has now piloted us to a pasture for
Restoration and ...
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did i hear someone say

    i saw the wind

tell me please

    what was the

length of of ...
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cool breeze

snuck inside my window

just now

caressed me

i knew it was there

flowers

out of her head

brimming
weighty
ablaze
aglow
tulips
sutures
slaps
and slams
 
do we chalk-one-up
ante up
apprehend
gander
auscultate
 
do ...
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the chandelier is lit with candles

it’s before the days of kerosene or gaslights

the stars play the companion view tonight

i see a tricycle

File past the jail cells.

Don’t look in

smell what could be

old socks

balled up under a bed,

your ...
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Much layed flat
Much grew straight-up
Much had no clock
Much felt sad
Much had joy

Much went bananas, ...
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actually

      as i’m ta understand

there’s a fourth

but

she won’t tell

          ...
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the awkish pear fell wildly

by the dog’s face

and the dog (like the sun)

turned yellow

and barked

and ...
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i ain’t thinkin’

bout much

but tangle bush 

and bramble weed

flys on my legs

wasps on my nose

leaves

one morning

sitting by the water

mist tumbles

over the foreground of water

the backdrop is

new spring trees

billowing ...
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it’s okay bobby
i know
that i know too
that i wish i didn’t know
there’s always that

i’ll be ...
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poet’s death

thrust this primary grief

strength will pass

hair pulling

wailing

crying

womanly grief

choked by thundering sea waves

I never could swing the bat and then make it hit anything

the dog

open road rolling

dirt

blooming high plains flowers

brush

horizon

barbed wire picket fence stretched ahead

like eyes ...
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or days that

seem scattered

a dust storm’s

tooth pick boxes

flung

senses

slammed open

halt

weep-time

the light   the light
say
                 hello to
somebody
anybody
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and it’s you S.,
it’s you

you ain’t got no reason

this is all way out of
season

you see ...
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i find

    that

    what’s

    odd

is quite regular really

plus

    frankly

odd is friendly

in the ...
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as i danced
deep
within a Sherwood of
forests
i came upon an unusually
large tree 

it beckoned
and i ...
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they dragged the boy
I can see his face so scared
the men had killin’ on their mind

Emmett, the ...
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Chickasaw
Chickasaw

never got 
there 
not sure i got
anywhere

‘cept here

gotta a friend 
there in
Chickasaw

turns out ...
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it’s a very tall fire
reaching
reaching high into the dark
all the books are burning
there is the crackle ...
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I’ve been ’round the block

Ship’s
Rudders ripped
Stanchion pickled
Times yell hell
Hell
And walk your way there
Egg
Dripping
Face shamed
Newspapers
...
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in the tradition
of those who practice
Judaism, today and long ago
18 minutes before sundown
each Friday
candles ...
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yea

it was a red kidney

bean

i had soak

ed

a pound o

ver night

the ...
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can you talk

i had it all mapped out

philosophy

problems

solutions

in the end

it has been about beer and pussy

my brother became a grampa yesterday
and I can say
my heart soared
like an eagle does

he’s a ...
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yellow dogs

babies wide eyed

french toast railing about butter

picture frame empty

sun bearing down

been given another day

further emphasize pursuit

salvation

ass develops

picaresque mini-arcs mirrors

miniaturizes the dual narrative psyche

intervention stabbing socrates neck

bladder pieces ...
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there he was

  with

that new suck machine

applying it to the

carpet in the car

   the rubber

loving Jesus is

a lot like loving Jesus

it’s not like loving flowers

or trees

or mountains

it’s loving the ...
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in Alabama is also
darkness
fat snakes
and winged beasts on prey

ha
every third block is a church
always ...
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sometimes we dream

sometimes we suffer

sometimes we bump into walls

sometimes the wall bumps into us

sometimes there is ...
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time
day
light
deep earthen receptacles on fire, for
Walt.

the Disney Walt.
Snow White &
Bill Cosby mickeys

the ...
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