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Poetry -
Fall 2005
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Sam Silva
Poet from North Carolina
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A HOUSE IN A COUNTRY TOWN  


by
Sam Silva (North Carolina)


Sweet acre of wind!
Sweet lot where summer slowly cools
and leaves first gather near the pole
on lovely streets
that harbor fools
in a view that the kitchen window meets
in lifting up the world outside
to the tears that shape the happy soul
whereof the seasons
lived and died!     

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SUNSHINE ON THE HEELS OF THE RAIN

by Sam Silva (North Carolina)


Smoke a steamy cigarette!
In as much as the heart is strange
it was you
dark comforter
dark day of regret
with your deluge and clouds and thunder
stirring my sorrow
to tears and release.  

Then the gaudy Sun
opened up the yard and garden
to a picture like TV.
Endless days of this
dry summer in the city
slippery and slick
laughable wonder
of how the candle soaked the wick
in this our smoky hour
of peace!