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PEACE OF MIND by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE

Poet Analysis

First Line: IF THE POOL WERE STILL
Last Line: BOTTOMLESS WELL.
Subject(s): PEACE; SOUL; STARS;

If the pool were still
The reflected world
Of tottering houses
The falling cities,
The quaking mountains
Would cohere on the surface

And stars invisible
To the troubled mind
Be seen in water
Drawn from the soul's
Bottomless well.



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