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Donald Thomas

Poetry

Autumn/ September 1967

Hours in a Library

By Donald Thomas

Identitas. Carruthers kept back numbers of Transactions of the Bibliographical Society The one professed umbilical that wound into his   past. An open man, Carruthers, mostly. All his shelves   were kept […]

Poetry

Autumn/ September 1966

Welcome to the Grand Hotel

By Donald Thomas

Jawbone shot loose, the dying leopard ranWith killer teeth hung in a slack grimace.Cleaned now, that tawny pelt beds-her lank thighs.A python’s tube of skin, cut to her shoes,Taken so […]