John Lee Clark
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[Poems]

Barbara Walters Is in Awe

of a deaf-blind man
who cooks without burning himself!
Helen Keller is to blame.
Can't I pick my nose
without it being a miracle?

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Am I a Nobody, Too?

I am sorry to disappoint,
but I am. But nobody
would let me be one,
not even when I catch
a bus stinking of Nobodies.

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One Afternoon, I Found Myself

walking with my cane dragging
behind me but still knowing
the way. There was nothing
to see. Everything saw me
first and stayed in place.

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This group of poems first appeared in Wordgathering.

John Lee Clark's chapbook of poems is Suddenly Slow and he edited Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology, both of which are available at https://www.clercscar.com/books