At the Rim: Selected Poems
By Bob Johnston
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At the Rim - Bob Johnston
At the Rim
Selected Poems
Bob Johnston
At the Rim
Selected Poems
© 2011 by Robert K. Johnston
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Body typeface Palatino Linotype
Cover design by Vicki Ahl
Printed on acid free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johnston, Bob, 1920-
At the rim : poems / Bob Johnston.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-86534-814-1 (soft cover : alk. paper)
I. Title.
PS3610.O3839A87 2011
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The following poems, or earlier versions of these poems, first appeared in the indicated journals. Permission to reprint is gratefully acknowledged.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
BACK
Hazel, South Dakota
Waiting
Coarse Texture
Running Water
End of the Drought
There Are No Birds in Manhattan
UP
Poems Written to Order
Our Animal Friends
The Best Colors Are Mixed
The Entropy Drag
Total Immersion
Finding Home
CLEAR
The Second Excited State
These Foolish Things
Song in Four Movements
Quartet
Sought Through Prayer and Meditation
Loretto Chapel
Bedrock
Redefinition
DARK
The Exorcist
In Memoriam
The Green Underworld
Double Helix
Termination
A Day Late
The Tie That Binds
The Track to Nowhere
THE SEVEN DEADLY COLORS
Purple
Gold
Red
Black
Puce