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Richard Lyons

Poetry

Autumn 1950

Sunday

By Richard Lyons

The sky is Easter blue. The wind is March. The Sunday clock primps its religious beat To the bargain-sale precision of a starch Bright sun upon a purple bonnet. How […]

Poetry

Autumn 1950

Stackers of Wheat

By Richard Lyons

The sky is full of sun, immense with heat Twisting the mind upon itself. It seems To make the thin blue atmosphere retreat Into a height of no computing yet […]