Best Raymond Carver Poems
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1.
Earwigs
"I lifted the cake from its foil wrapping/ and three more earwigs went over the side/ of the can! For a minute I was so taken/ aback I didn't know if I should kill them,/ or what. Then rage seized me, and/ I plastered them. Crushed the life from them/ before any could get away. It was a massacre."
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2.
Bonnard's Nudes
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3.
Afterglow
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4.
Through the Boughs
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5.
Ask Him
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6.
Grief
"Such display/ I found embarrassing. So did his other/ friends. I couldn't see it./ Not until this morning."
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7.
Nearly
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8.
Mother
"My mother calls to wish me a Merry Christmas./ And to tell me if this snow keeps on/ she intends to kill herself."
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9.
A Forge, and A Scythe
"Come home. Do you hear?/ My lungs are thick with the smoke/ of your absence."
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10.
For the Record
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11.
Fear
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12.
You Don't Know What Love Is
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13.
The Road
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14.
What the Doctor Said
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15.
Bobber
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16.
Something Is Happening
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17.
The White Field
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18.
The Kitchen
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19.
The Fields
"I was nearsighted and had to get up close/ so I could see it in the first place: the earth/ that'd been torn with a disk or plow./ But I could smell it, and I didn't like it."
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20.
In the Trenches with Robert Graves
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