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AFTER A CITY WINTER by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG

Poet Analysis

First Line: HILL TOPS ARE FORMS OF SILENCE
Last Line: AND THE BLUE CURVE OF A WING.
Subject(s): CITIES; WINTER; URBAN LIFE;
Hill-tops are forms of silence,
And sunlight is like skin,
And every pine along the cliffs
Hushes what I have been,
And what I have known. And the quiet
Draws me to tingle and throb;
And a three-stemmed dogwood in blossom
Breaks from me like a sob.
There is nothing, and then still nothing
(Excepting everything)
And I vanish in many white sepals
And the blue curve of a wing.



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