Watch By Greg Miller 9780226526140 (Paperback)

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Watch : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226526140 : 0226526143 : 27 Oct 2009 :                             Strasbourg  The yellow and green rose, and the pink rock, The chestnuts blooming, the cobblestone square, Our Lady&;s tower rising everywhere, Dark timbered fronts; the mechanical clock Whose rooster crows three times for Peter&;s flock, The Apostles, the old man&;s and the child&;s share Of time&;aspire I&;d say to make me stare And stop. I praise what I might otherwise mock, The locked contingencies, the stock of losses, Bright liquidity everywhere channeled, A storied cityscape of destinies Averted as when, turning, a young Turk tosses His hands in the air and my chest&;s pummeled, &;My brother, forgive me!&; and my thoughts freeze.                                                                                                  In Watch, Greg Miller describes a fresh purposefulness in his life and achieves a new level of poetic thinking and composition in

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