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Joshua Beckman

Joshua Beckman is the author of five books of poetry, including Shake (Wave Books, 2006) ...
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		Poems about Gardens
		Done With by Ann Stanford

		from Angel of Duluth by Madelon Sprengnether

		Garden Homage by Medbh McGuckian

		Herb Garden by Timothy Steele

		Lucinda Matlock by Edgar Lee Masters

		October (section I) by Louise Glück

		osculation for easter flower by Sandra Miller

		Telling the Bees by Deborah Digges

		The Public Garden by Robert Lowell

		Trees in the Garden by D. H. Lawrence

		Poems for Summer
		Alice at Seventeen: Like a Blind Child by Darcy Cummings

		Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson

		Fat Southern Men in Summer Suits by Liam Rector

		Fishing on the Susquehanna in July by Billy Collins

		Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare

		Summer Holiday by Robinson Jeffers

They'll spend the summer
by Joshua Beckman

They'll spend the summer crushing the garden-- a steam let off slowly.
From Your Time Has Come by Joshua Beckman, published by Verse Press. Copyright © 2004 by Joshua Beckman. Reprinted by permission of Verse Press. All rights reserved.