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RECOVERING by MURIEL RUKEYSER

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First Line: DREAM OF THE WORLD
Last Line: I wake in the dark
Subject(s): NIGHT; BEDTIME;

Dream of the world
speaking to me.
The dream of the dead
acted out in me.
The fathers shouting
across their blue gulf.
A storm in each word,
an incomplete universe.
Lightning in brain,
slow-time recovery.
In the light of October
things emerge clear.
The force of looking
returns to my eyes.
Darkness arrives
splitting the mind open.
Something again
is beginning to be born.
A dance is
dancing me.
I wake in the dark.



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