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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE THREE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS
First Line: The first he loved was so
Last Line: Greenly remote, alone.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People
First Line: The first he loved was so
Last Line: Greenly remote, alone.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Relationships; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People
The first he loved was so:
she came eating a red apple,
scuffed leaves in moccasined feet;
watching the wind dapple
the lazy gutter's flow,
she set out a matchstick fleet.
The second had a word like wire
and laughter pagan, winey;
there was a blue vein of fear
that ran along her tiny
flame-licked leaf of ear.
And her small hand was fire.
The third lay in the white
sand under water moving,
clearly. She was a green stone,
of spell and dream, proving
strange variable forms of light,
greenly remote, alone.
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