Pennsylvania

Stanza XVI from ‘Stanzas in Meditation’ by Gertrude Stein

Should they call me what they call me When they come to call on me And should I be satisfied with all three When all three are with me Or should I say may they stay Or will they stay with me On no account must they cry out About which one went where they…

July 20, 2014

Joseph M. Gerace

poetry

death, experimentation, France, Gertrude Stein, other people’s poems, paris, Pennsylvania, poetry
Untitled, 072820131301 [draft For Gettysburg, Whitman]

Smell the breath of grass First at their backs and bayonetted sides Because this, the duty of the living:

July 28, 2013

Joseph M. Gerace

poetry

America, civil war, colors, death, first draft, history, humanity, landscape, life, mortality, New York Times, Pennsylvania, philosophy, poetry, rumination, scansion, war, Whitman