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    Leaves: Collected Poems
    Leaves: Collected Poems
    Leaves: Collected Poems
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    Leaves: Collected Poems

    By Peter Jacoby

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    This is the first digital publication of of some of Mr. Jacoby's finest poetic work. Mr. Jacoby is (mostly) of the Modernist School, and uses poetry to examine the little and often overlooked things in life . . . and in people. His work, then, gives us a sometimes unique view into our world, and especially into ourselves.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Jacoby
    Release dateAug 13, 2012
    ISBN9781476127644
    Leaves: Collected Poems
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    Peter Jacoby

    I am a Professor of English at a college in San Diego, California. I have been writing for years in fiction, non-fiction, self-help, and poetry. It is fun. I think I will keep doing it for many years.

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      Leaves: Collected Poems

      by Peter R Jacoby

      Copyright 2012 by Peter R Jacoby

      Smashwords Edition

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      Smashwords Digital Edition: August 2012

      ISBN: 978-1-47612-764-4

      Contents

      Back There Somewhere

      The Diner

      Me and the Fence

      Shattered Faces and Tattered Painters

      Tillie's Place

      The Car Died

      A Rainy October Evening Spent Calling

      Snow Fence

      The Post Office Flag

      A River Flowed Below the Trees

      The Morning Is Gray and Damp

      The Fence, Damn It, the Fence

      The New Leaf

      The Purple Chair

      Too Bad, Isn't It

      Snow Catching

      Early June

      Short-Wristed Pearl-Buttoned Pair of Little White Gloves

      Of All My Loves

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      Back There Somewhere

      Back there somewhere

      There's something I said I'd do

      Something I said I'd try to do —

      Thing is, I don't know where it

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