The ClarinetFirst published in Mosaic #28, 1988, page 82 (University of California, Riverside). This was my first published longer poem in any journal other than school-related publications. Also published in Sand Hill Review #4, Spring 2003, page 39. + A Londoner with hatovercoatclarinet plays amiable songstunesmelodies outside the Royal Festival, command performance inside. His hatovercoatclarinet case are worn, and the tired case lies open where naked reedspenniespounds rest. The music floats sweetly across the Thames played through thin woolgloveswithoutfingers and when the concert ends bowlersgownsducktails waltz like the river by to the sound of a dreamy clarinet.
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