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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.
You are my friend— you bring me peaches and the high bush cranberry you carry my fishpole
Feign a great calm; all gay transport soon ends. Chant: who knows— flight’s end or flight’s beginning for the resting gull?
My mother saw the green tree toad on the window sill her first one since she was young. We saw it breathe
In the great snowfall before the b… colored yule tree lights windows, the only glow for contemp… along this road I worked the print shop
He lived—childhood summers thru bare feet then years of money’s lack and heat beside the river—out of flood
Ten thousand women and I the only one in boots Life’s dance:
The chemist creates the brazen approximation: Life Thy will be done
Nothing worth noting except an Andromeda with quadrangular shoots— the boots of the people
And the place was water Fish fowl flood
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 wild and wavy event now chintz at the window was revolution . . . Adams to Miss Abigail Smith:
My friend tree I sawed you down but I must attend an older friend the sun
Popcorn—can cover screwed to the wall over a hole so the cold can’t mouse in
My wife is ill! And I sit waiting for a quorum Fast ride