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LOOKING AT SOME FLOWERS by ROBERT BLY

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First Line: LIGHT IS BEHIND THE PETALS, AND AROUND THEM
Last Line: Or the ground this house is on, / only free of the sea for five or six thousand years
Subject(s): FLOWERS;

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