Robert M. Simmons  

Poetry Contents

Selections From

Tracings (Poems 1964-1992)

   Streetlights

    Horse Chestnuts

    Burrows Street

    The Elmwood/Auburn

    The Music Room

    Impressions at Evening

    The Bonnie (Based on a Newspaper Account)

    Lu Chang and Fong Shi

    Harold and Claudia

    Jeremy and Sarah

    Doris

    Conrad

    There Is a Time in Summer

    Autumn Nocturne

    November Evening

    Winter Storm

    New Year's Eve 1978

    Twin Wrecks

    At an Art Museum

    Mannequin

Morning in Middleborough and Other Views of Village Life (Poems 1991-2006)

   Morning in Middleborough

    The Sand and Gravel Truck

    Boom-Box on a Late Summer Eve

    Fat Guy on a Motorcycle

    Venus on Main Street

    Adonis on Everett Square

    The Mansions of Main Street

    The Peirce Academy

    Jupiter's Telescope

    Epistle from the Abyss

    Walter and Wayne at the Unisex Hair Salon

    Walter and Wayne at Harry's Diner

    Saint Sebastian at Harry's Diner

    Leaf Madness

    Snow Madness

    Merlin's Revenge

    Spencer the Spitter (or Great Expectorations)

    Beyond the Portière

    Village Nocturne

    Evening in Middleborough

Added Entries (Poems 1991- )

   A Dip in the Dow

    Private Lives in Public Places

    Boston to Washington

    The Air-conditioned Ark

    Flight from the Inferno (or The Hamptons in the Heavens)

    The Last Sunset

    The Death of Life

    Walter's Postmeridian

    Walter's Sonnet

    Stasis

    Change

    Interludes of Bliss

    Fond Memories

    The Sepia Print

    Cell Phone at a Fancy Restaurant

    Automobile Remote Control

    Life on Nantucket (or CEO's in Paradise)

    The Captain of Main Street (A Nantucket Sea Chantey)

    The Cape Cod Christmas Train

    Truck Stop Christmas

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