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HILL HUNGER by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM

First Line: I LOVE A HILL THAT CROUCHES STILL
Last Line: I WANT HILL-RAIMENT NEAR MY SKIN!

I LOVE a hill that crouches still
All day -- more patient than a wife
Grown big with child. There is no strife
Within the soul of any hill.

Soft gray draws round it as a shawl
And shadow wind comes close to steal
A moment's calm. The dusk birds feel
The sacristan's repose, the fall

Of mist-gray raiment clean and thin ...
I have been tracked by memory ...
This fevered ocean maddens me.
I want hill-raiment near my skin!



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