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Humana Turn The Wheel by David Cope
Acclaimed poet David Cope's fifth collection, Turn the Wheel, opens with a lean dawn, farewell to old loves and challenges to new, past sorrows and tenderness filling the older poet's dreams, tender petals for calm crossing. Here too is ground zero struggle for compassion, lost worlds in the valley of the sun, finale a broken note, herons under the jetliner's blast path near the shaking train stuffed with its cargo of dead dreams. Owashtanong Sunrisemillennial blues Lost Loves the white-bristled sallow face in the photo Owashtanong Sunriseto you who dream Fran the reception Empire of Sorrows Solihull to MaryleboneThe Fourth Turn the Wheelplanting salvia & marigolds in rain, Ghazal of the High PlateauFrankie's Blues dried leaves flashing before full moonYeah, an' here he was,'La Goulue' Considers His Linesthe passing shapes when they were youngerTender Petals for Calm Crossing Lear by lanternlight The AbyssReading the SignsMy Bike Waking Ophelia The Gift Her memory comes that she can After the snowstormShattered The dharma at last Cross-eyed farewellThe Disappearing SagesThe People Themselvesas the dryers rolled The Michigan Dead at Sharpsburg Traffic Backup, Chesapeake Bay Bridge RoadThe People Themselves After Du BellayClearing the Gazebo Roof Out thru the eye beyond the stars the years in a winkon the moonlit roadthe distorted mirrorGone (as you are)ground zeroBlue Notes for New YorkIn SilenceL'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelleAnthrax'dBomb Fragments, Body Parts,ER Saturday NightWhaddya getBlinding snow freeway rush hourGone (as you are)The Broken NoteIn a Sentimental MoodMadadeyo in dreams Ancient of DaysDreaming: Valley of the SunCanyon Rim to Hopi Point by MoonlightPassover Blood Market After RonsardEmile at the CrossroadThe Broken Note