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First Line: But like remorse
Last Line: It can never stop .
Subject(s): Grass; Prairies; Plains


But like remorse
the prairie grass
seeks emptiness,

increases
in its sleep,
gets even

with the fragrant,
stoic sage.
Oh, it is witless

and blind.
It cannot remember
what it was doing

with all that wind.
It waits
for a thimbleful of rain.

It populates such distances
it must be brave
but prairie grass

bends down in sorrow
to be so lost,
and like remorse

feels
so nearly endless
it cannot ever stop.


Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org




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