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Henry Grimes

Poetry and Music Intersections 2009:

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Liberal Arts Symposium 2009

The Universe’s Lullaby from Liberal Arts Symposium 2008

by Mark Simos

Go to sleep, my little tabby cat

I love to watch you on my kitchen mat

Sleep, your head between your outstretched paws

Dreaming of those mice

Between your little jaws

Dream of mousies if they’re what you crave

And we shall plant a little mouse’s grave

Cat and mouse, just God by another name

So sleep, my little tabby—sleep and dream

Sleep and dream

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The Sycamore Tree from Liberal Arts Symposium 2008

by Keppie Coutts

Brown grass and monkey bars

Boys with marbles and trading cards

Melting tar on a hot day, and there was only one tree

In the schoolyard, that was the place to be

Shade of that tree in the hot southern sun

Was small, only room for some

That’s where the white kids sat

The baking brick wall was all the black kids had

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