2023 Samuel Allan Washington Prize Poems:
I grow old … I grow old …
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
—-T. S. Eliot
- Subtraction
- Upon Turning Eighty
- Two Ways
- Through the Looking Glass
- Too Late for the Innocence of Daisies
- Simmering Gumbo
- Fire Poppy
- Still Crazy After All these Years
- No Anodyne
Why I Still Drive by the Abandoned Shell Station Belting Out Bruce Springsteen
Visiting My Sister Isolated by COVID
Visiting The Gardens at DePugh Nursing Center, Winter Park, Florida
Holly Stevens, 67; Edited Father’s Work
Martha Stewart’s Ten Commandments for Snow
The First Poem I Have Labeled: Love Poem
February 1, 2004: Mae Keane, 97, Speaks to Men
Proud Flesh: Mary Waits for Shelley
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