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I rose from marsh mud, algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs to see her wed in the rich
Mr. Van Ess bought 14 washcloths? Fourteen washrags, Ed Van Ess? Must be going to give em to the church, I guess. He drinks, you know. The day we m…
Feign a great calm; all gay transport soon ends. Chant: who knows— flight’s end or flight’s beginning for the resting gull?
He lived—childhood summers thru bare feet then years of money’s lack and heat beside the river—out of flood
Nothing worth noting except an Andromeda with quadrangular shoots— the boots of the people
Ten thousand women and I the only one in boots Life’s dance:
You are my friend— you bring me peaches and the high bush cranberry you carry my fishpole
Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade I learned to sit at desk
I married in the world’s black night for warmth if not repose. At the close—
The wild and wavy event now chintz at the window was revolution . . . Adams to Miss Abigail Smith:
Old Mother turns blue and from us… “Don’t let my head drop to the ear… I’m blind and deaf.” Death from t… a thimble in her purse. “It’s a long day since last night.
The chemist creates the brazen approximation: Life Thy will be done
My wife is ill! And I sit waiting for a quorum Fast ride
Well, spring overflows the land, floods floor, pump, wash machine of the woman moored to this low sh… Goodbye to lilacs by the door and all I planted for the eye.
And the place was water Fish fowl flood