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A Few Lines from Rehoboth Beach
2023-12-06Dear friend, you were right: the smell of fish and foam and algae makes one green smell together. It clears my head. It empties me enough to fit down ...
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A Farewell to America
2023-12-06I. Adieu, New-England's smiling meads, Adieu, th' flow'ry plain: I leave thine op'ning charms, O spring, And tempt the roaring main. I...
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A Family History
2023-12-06At dusk the girl who will become my mom must trudge through the snow, her legs cold under skirts, a bandanna tight on her braids. In the henhouse, a k...
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A Dream Within a Dream
2023-12-06Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow: You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if h...
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A Divine Image
2023-12-06Cruelty has a Human heart And Jealousy a Human Face, Terror, the Human Form Divine, And Secrecy, the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forgéd Iro...
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A Crosstown Breeze
2023-12-06A drift of wind when August wheeled brought back to mind an alfalfa field where green windrows bleached down to hay while storm clouds rose and rolled...
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A Clear Midnight
2023-12-06This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging...
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A child said, What is the grass?
2023-12-06A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child?。 . . .I do not know what it is any more than he. I g...
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A Certain Slant of Sunlight
2023-12-06In Africa the wine is cheap, and it is on St. Mark's Place too, beneath a white moon. I'll go there tomorrow, dark bulk hooded against what is...
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A Calculus of Readiness
2023-12-06I, too, come from the city of dolls. A small palm is my umbrella. This takes care of above but below, the blind river of sadness rolls on and in it, a...