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JERRY KOOSMAN

The freedom and the pity of our parallel chiseling
Where the alexandrine crops out from the heath
Is the loss of what else we might have made into a play
With our seriousness, our notable refusenik
Love, so Spanish-speaking in an outer space
Edward McDowell might have drafted with an octave

When the urge to express awe for the consistency
With which such a one as Koosman, say, or
Ed Kranepool, would face a daily labor only
Intermittently rewarding... do you speak Japanese?