Hugh Seidman

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AnxiousHugh Seidman

Love Poem

surcease surcease the cloud's edge a crack in the sun's face surcease surcease the church tower dead east in the mornings brown hair tied with a black felt ribbon a building with the windows gone men throwing boards from a truck as thus from the mind's light as I lay
ContemplativeHugh Seidman

Abstraction on His Father

The fire doors open out going down hinged at the left to the outside frame. In the intricacy of the stacks, tier on tier, turning always right it was possible for a man to remain unnoticed. incurved the frame's vault the door's metal the hand opens in the gesture of closing

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The film under an eyelid

The roomful of people & afterwards The face pressed to a pillow An irritant

as the smoke passes in the mind

in a hut

on a field of artillery

in a fire of napalm

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