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Poetry

Winter 1949

But Choose

By John Holmes

Judgment and cash and health and faith in God go wrong. Venus the queen of love and lovely Mrs. Adams age, Of which men weary. Water gets in behind the […]

Poetry

Winter 1949

From Brooklyn

By John Holmes

I came there the first time late at night byLoud subway, wet streets, long stairs to a room Hung for all I knew in nowhere, in Brooklyn, Walled with black […]