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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTACT, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography
First Line: O flame-shaped cypresses
Last Line: It is they who light the stars?
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Stars
First Line: O flame-shaped cypresses
Last Line: It is they who light the stars?
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Stars
O flame-shaped cypresses,
trembling in the dark:
Is it your roots
are agrip with craters of the earth,
that your tips
stretch so serenely,
it is they who light the stars?
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