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		Poems About Home
		9773 Comanche Ave. by David Trinidad

		Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [excerpt] by Aimé Césaire

		Birthplace by Michael Cirelli

		Daily by Naomi Shihab Nye

		Dusting by Marilyn Nelson

		Fishing on the Susquehanna in July by Billy Collins

		He Foretells His Passing by F. D. Reeve

		Home is so Sad by Philip Larkin

		My House, I Say by Robert Louis Stevenson

		On the Disadvantages of Central Heating by Amy Clampitt

		Otherwise by Jane Kenyon

		Psalm of Home Redux by David Lee

		Steppingstone by Andrew Hudgins

		Sysiphusina by Shira Dentz

		Te Deum by Charles Reznikoff

		The Afternoon Sun by C. P. Cavafy

		The Bedroom by Paula Bohince

		The Cabbage by Ruth Stone

		The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats

		This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams

		Untitled [I grew up in North Adams] by Brenda Iijima

		Wonder Cabinet by Tina Chang

Proclamation
by Stuart Dischell

The governor will give Homeless people sleeping bags, Let them stay the night On windswept porticos Outside his buildings Instead of your doorstep. I am talking to myself With empty rooms I cannot bear to live in.


Copyright © 2010 by Stuart Dischell. Used with permission of the author.