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STORM by HILDA DOOLITTLE

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU CRASH OVER THE TREES
Last Line: A GREEN STONE.
Subject(s): BIBLE; STORMS;

You crash over the trees,
you crack the live branch --
the branch is white,
the green crushed,
each leaf is rent like split wood.
You burden the trees
with black drops,
you swirl and crash --
you have broken off a weighted leaf
in the wind,
it is hurled out,
whirls up and sinks,
a green stone.



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