INVITATION STANDING BRING a leaf to me just a leaf just a spring leaf, an april leaf just      come Blue sky never mind Spring rain never mind Reach up and take a leaf and      come just come Paul Blackburn, (1926-1971) from The Cities, Grove Press:1967. Paul Blackburn, son of writer

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A Time to Talk When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk I don’t stand still and look around On all the hills I haven’t hoed, And shout from where I am, “What is it?” No, not as there is a