Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FROM A HOUSE IN NEW ENGLAND (TO A FRIEND IN THE WEST), by WILLARD JOHNSON


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FROM A HOUSE IN NEW ENGLAND (TO A FRIEND IN THE WEST), by                    
First Line: There is a window in this magic house
Last Line: Running away -- knowing us one too few!
Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Magic; New England; Separation; Isolation


There is a window in this magic house
(The home of Puss-in-Boots and family now)
A thousand times as large as mine at Taos,
And yet it holds no more -- I don't know how!
In fact, they're both the same, with hills of snow,
Pine trees and oaks: a landscape here as old
And almost just as new, as landscapes go.
But here are rhododendrons, curled with cold,
And slender birches that might be aspen trees;
Indeed I onetime wondered if they were
And if you had not come disguised in these
To hide among the cedar and the fir --
A western wind, the other half of you
Running away -- knowing us one too few!





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