THE WAR MAGICIAN (Poems by Henry Kanabus)

POEMS by HENRY KANABUS . Selected New Poems by Illinois Arts Council Award Winner

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

TO LOVE IN JANUARY

We have taken
names and numbers
from the man in room 12

For this he has been given
scars
and lampshades

A patch has been quilted
over his arm
where her name had been

In the young wound
he imbeds
the perfect emerald.
 
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      • THE FIRST DREAM
      • THE MARRIAGE CART
      • MR. INVOCAL NED IN WINTER
      • FLY PAPER
      • RETURNING TO EUROPE
      • THE STANDING PARTY
      • THE BOTANIST'S WOMAN
      • LAURA ON THE ROOF
      • WAX SEAL IN RED (1936)
      • THE BELLY COMB
      • THE BAD MONKEY
      • THE MISER STONE
      • YOUR CHILD IS WEEPING
      • TO LOVE IN JANUARY
      • SKY CITY
      • RED LIPSTICK . THE GIRL
      • THE HAZE REPORT (1943)
      • BAD TIMES FOR LONERS
      • CARGO AND FATA MORGANA
      • FLOATERS
      • THE CLINGING MONKEY
      • SEEDS FROM SPACE
      • MISTER GEIGER'S WIFE
      • PARCHED NUMBERS
      • TORCH SONG
      • THE CELLO IN THE FOREST
      • WHITE SHIPS
      • THE GNAWING CLASS

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