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Robert B. Shaw

Poetry

Spring 1987

Extended Run

By Robert B. Shaw

Across the road a ragged stand of treesputting out summer growth puts out of view  the mountain close behind.Too warm to worry at obscurities,as long as summer flourishes we find  the proverb […]

Poetry

Spring 1987

Homework

By Robert B. Shaw

In those last years she sewed mostly by feel.The window by her chair did little for her;late in the day she felt the sun loweringand went on stitching, nodding with […]

Poetry

Spring 1987

Old Burying Ground

By Robert B. Shaw

As long as men have cleared these fields of stonesthis spot has been a portion set apartfor those who cleared them to inter their bones,their names indebted to the carver’s […]