Rez Boys in Winter

poem

Sherman Alexie

Aug 28, 2023

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We were the brothers
with only two pairs
of shoes. Last year's
basketball sneakers

were this year's
snow boots. We wore
jean jackets for
winter coats. We walked

recklessly across ice
and frozen mud. 
We punched our legs
to warm the blood.

Our bare hands were
our only pair of gloves.

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Ernie Brill

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Aug 31Liked by Sherman Alexie

I've loved your work for over twenty years. I used much of your work in my twenty plus years as a public high school teachr, especially one of your one page masterpieces - Scalpdance in both my creative writing , American lit And Brit lit ( using it with 1984). If you send me your email I will send you a copy of my first book o fpoetry. I'm78.

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