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brickyard
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brick·yard  (brkyärd)
n.
A place where bricks are made.
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Noun1.brickyardbrickyard - a place where bricks are made and sold
workshop, shop - small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

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On his brick-collecting excursions back in the 1970s, he would take a pickup truck with a trailer to an old town in Ohio and look for the oldest person he could find, asking for advice about locating brickyards abandoned in the 1930s.
His diction is direct and clear and his poems are filled with concrete details that ring true and familiar, "green clabber I scumming puddles alongside the train, / then brickyards banked on body shops, / homeless trackside nappers under trees,/ ditchwater where shopping carts come to drink.
 
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