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Sep 25, 2019

For My Wife

Last night I wandered through the moon’s deep dust, Flung far across an intervening void By wan Diana, clad in waxen robes;

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For My Parents on Their Thirtieth Anniversary

William I. Atkinson

Sep 2, 2019

For My Parents on Their Thirtieth Anniversary

What is a mark in time but reckoning of it? Each anniversary carries in a small black pouch Strapped to its belt, a slight reminder

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William I. Atkinson

Jan 2, 2010

Night Sky: Liftoff

To pause at the lip of this voiceless place To wait at the brink of this frozen dream And feel its dead breath seep through waiting space

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William I. Atkinson

Jan 2, 2010

Intergalactic

Nor glass nor stainless steel now comes between My wide eyes and their vision steeped in sleep – Of things that live yet live divorced ...

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William I. Atkinson

Jan 2, 1982

English Bay

The ships lie out on English Bay Bright-lit like floating beacons Vancouver with her spangled hands And accents of exotic strands

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William I. Atkinson

Jan 2, 1980

Sonnet: Fall

My distillate of summer, that red mane Learned color from a dawn-exploding sun; And smooth stream-polished pebbles of green jade That glow..

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William I. Atkinson

Jan 2, 1979

The Man in the Moon

The man in the moon Slouched up through the sky And he heaved up his shoulders And gave such a sigh That the stars in their spheres

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William I. Atkinson

Dec 25, 1973

A Christmas Ode

The bells split distance as the night air splits Our breaths’ dim shadows from the forest floor, Making of each moonlit exhalation

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