POETRY Magazine cover of July 1960 issue

July 1960

 
  • Roy Basler
  • Bruce Berlind
  • Frederick Eckman
  • Robert Hazel
  • Richard Hugo
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Scenes of Childhood

My mother’s lamp once out,
I press a different switch:
A field within the dim
White screen ignites,
vibrating to the rapt
Mechanical racket
Of a real noon field’s
Crickets and gnats.

And to its candid heart
I move with heart ajar,
With eyes that smart less
From pollen or heat
Than...
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