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John W. Delonas Poetry

  • A Bach Recital
  • A Circle In Hell
  • A Grave in the Ramapos
  • Alice
  • Amazing Grace at Christmastime
  • America’s Water Problem
  • Antinomy
  • Antinomy II
  • Cape Hatteras
  • Christina’s World
  • Cosmonaut X
  • Death Is an Old Man
  • Dr. F, And Professor D.
  • Drift Fence
  • Emeritus
  • First Frost (For Grace)
  • Flower Light (20th Reunion Dinner-Dance Of West Side High)
  • Goat Boy
  • High School Dance Chaperones
  • In The Dark of Some Outlaw Place
  • Lest We Forget
  • Mrs. Wegland
  • Northern Light
  • Ode on A Vacant Woodlot Love
  • Of Cabbages, Kings, And College Deans
  • Of Careers and Glaciers
  • On Aristotle
  • On Looking At “Grief”— A Statue in Washington
  • On Watching Nicholas Sleep
  • Parents
  • Plato The Pig
  • Precocious
  • Reason For Commitment
  • Renewal and Dance
  • Rockport Road Cemetery
  • Saxton Falls
  • Spit
  • Symbols And Science
  • Thanksgiving Prayer
  • The Day We Met
  • The Michigan State University Swedes
  • The Pinning Ceremony (The Going-Steady Ritual At Drew University)
  • The Rise Of The Administraitor (From Waterloo To Watergate)
  • The Terror Of Death
  • The Usher
  • The Walks Of Drew
  • The: Grammarian’s Rubinesque
  • To A Law Student
  • To A Lost Love
  • To N___
  • To Nadia
  • Weather Report
  • Why The Female Robin Is A Brown Bird
  • Xury
  • Young Apples On The Willow Tree

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