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Carl Adamshick

Born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1969 Carl Adamshick grew up primarily in Harvard, Illinois...
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		Poems About New Year's
		In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells] by Lord Alfred Tennyson

		A Good Year Down by Jeni Olin

		A New Law by Greg Delanty

		A Song for New Year's Eve by William Cullen Bryant

		At the Entering of the New Year by Thomas Hardy

		Fragments for the End of the Year by Jennifer K. Sweeney

		Heavy Snowfall in A Year Gone Past by Laura Jensen

		In Tenebris by Ford Madox Ford

		Letter to GC by Dana Levin

		Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays by Charles Reznikoff

		New Year's Morning by Helen Hunt Jackson

		Te Deum by Charles Reznikoff

		The Call of the Open by Percy Bysshe Shelley

		The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

		The Garden Year by Sara Coleridge

		The New Year by Emma Lazarus

		The Old Year by John Clare

		The Passing of the Year by Robert W. Service

		The Year by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

		The Year's Awakening by Thomas Hardy

		Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 by William Collins

New years' morning
by Carl Adamshick

A low, quiet music is playing— distorted trumpet, torn bass line, white windows. My palms are two speakers the size of pool-hall coasters. I lay them on the dark table for you to repair.

Copyright © 2010 by Carl Adamshick. From Curses and Wishes (Louisiana State University Press, 2011). Used by permission of the author.