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Author: HIRSHFIELD, JANE Matches Found: 231 Hirshfield, Jane Poet's Biography 231 poems available by this author 1973 First Line: That winter we took turns stepping into Last Line: Sweetness and heat, and in me, each time since, %the answering yes 20-OCT-83 First Line: On a quiet morning in autumn A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING Poem Text First Line: Today when persimmons ripen Last Line: Today when persimmons ripen Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A CEDARY FRAGRANCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Even now / decades after Last Line: To make the unwanted wanted Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A DAY IS VAST Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: But you can lose it Subject(s): Time A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS Poem Text First Line: Even generous august Last Line: Folds that loneliness, one moment, two, love, back into your arms Subject(s): Love ADAMANTINE PERFECTION OF DESIRE First Line: Nothing more strong Last Line: The living cannot help but love the world AFTER LONG SILENCE First Line: Politeness fades, %a small anchovy gleam Last Line: Yet words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins AFTER WORK First Line: I stop the car along the pasture edge AGAINST LOSS First Line: For years I hoped ALL SUMMER YOU KEPT TRYING TO ANSWER First Line: All summer you kept trying to answer to knocking %down the hill Last Line: Still, waking is waking. It is good to have a companion %the late stars shine in the cold, some red, ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: First the jar holds the umeboshi, then the rice does Subject(s): Time ALWAYS SHE READS THE SAME TRANSLATION Last Line: It eats slowly and she lives, moving a little ARS POETICA First Line: These flat and leathery leaves ASK MUCH, THE VOICE SUGGESTED Last Line: A cup taken out, a cup reappears; a bucketful taken, a bucket AT NIGHT First Line: It is best AT NIGHTFALL Poem Text First Line: Like held lanterns, wavering Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers AT NIGHTFALL First Line: Like held lanterns, wavering Last Line: Wobblings, desires, where I -- she seems quite sure of it --belong Subject(s): Farm Life AT THE ROOSEVELT BATHS First Line: These women ('tough as old chicken' Last Line: Thunkety, thunkety %clearing the net ATTEMPT First Line: It is not that they failed to come; they came AUTUMN First Line: Again the wind Last Line: Back to bare wood %without diminishment AUTUMN QUINCE Poem Text First Line: How sad they are Subject(s): Loss AUTUMN QUINCE First Line: How sad they are Subject(s): Loss BETWEEN THE MATERIAL WORLD AND THE WORLD OF FEELING First Line: Between the material world and the world of feeling there must be a border Last Line: Flower or the dead-with an equally tender balance, and knows no difference %between them BONSAI First Line: One morning beginning to notice Last Line: Thickening the vacant branch-length in early march BREAKABLE SPELL First Line: I don't know %with what tongue Last Line: Hammering and sawing CHILDHOOD, HORSES, RAIN First Line: Again rain COMPLETING THE WEAVE First Line: A woman labors over the stories as over a needlepoint CONTINUOUS EMBROIDERY First Line: The sky's blue deepens to meet CONTRACT First Line: The woman who gave me the rose bush %reminds me Last Line: Adding their signature branch by branch %agreeing to loss COOK First Line: Each night you come home with five continents on your hands COURTSHIP First Line: When men come visiting Last Line: The daily faithfulness not even recognized as peacock-brilliant love CYCLADIC FIGURE: THE HARP PLAYER First Line: Body out of whose being Last Line: Seemed to it plausible, lovely DA CAPO First Line: Take the used-up heart like a pebble Last Line: Begin again the story of your life DARK-GRAINED, SURPRISINGLY HEAVY First Line: Dark-grained Last Line: With every mouthful, %something more torn open DEAD DO NOT WANT US DEAD Last Line: Even a cucumber, even a single anise seed: feasting Subject(s): Politics; War DESIRE First Line: For years, the habit of wanting you DESTINATION First Line: I wanted something, I wanted. I could not have it Last Line: To the end we each nodded, pretending to understand DIALOGUE First Line: A friend says DIFFERENT RISING First Line: I reflect, in the bath DOG STILL BARKING AT MIDNIGHT First Line: It has come to this: three ants, seemingly separate, seemingly aimless Last Line: To waver on the slim antennae of these my sisters? DOOR First Line: A note waterfalls steadily Last Line: That precedes change and allows it DOPPELGANGER Poem Text First Line: The old knot Subject(s): Doppelgangers DOPPELGANGER First Line: The old knot Subject(s): Doppelgangers DOWNED BRANCH First Line: I wanted to be intimate to my own life Last Line: Made without distinction of the lived-in tree EACH HAPPINESS RINGED BY LIONS First Line: Sometimes when Last Line: It is the moment they could almost let us go free EACH STEP First Line: Nowhere on this earth Last Line: While each step is nothing less than the glistening %river-body reentering home EARTHLY BEAUTY First Line: Others have described Last Line: Reproachful? Why does the bull? EMPEDOCLES' PHYSICS First Line: Aversion carves the self.' Last Line: The too-bright stream. Choose beauty loved -- %how loved -- within division's light EVEN THE VANISHING HOUSED First Line: But what if the world's Last Line: Though the infinite palace is infinite, it is precise EVENING, LATE FALL First Line: It is not this world, then, to blame, with its red FADO Poem Text First Line: A man reaches close Last Line: And the copper bowls balance Subject(s): Magic FLOOR First Line: The nails, once inset, rise to the surface Last Line: The beautiful to be FLOWERING VETCH First Line: Each of the tragedies can be read Last Line: But the reason for going FOR A GELDING First Line: No matter that it has been there Last Line: Candy, half-white and half-red -- has gone on ahead FOR A WEDDING ON MOUNT TAMALPAIS Poem Text First Line: July / and the rich apples Subject(s): Nature FOR A WEDDING ON MOUNT TAMALPAIS First Line: July %and the rich apples Last Line: Bringing home what is coming home %blessing what goes Subject(s): Nature FOR THE AUTUMN DEAD: ELECTION DAY, 1984 First Line: And those other flowers Last Line: To console the children with that hope FOR THE WOMEN OF POLAND: DECEMBER 1981 First Line: I think of you standing FOR WHAT BINDS US First Line: There are names for what binds us GODS ARE NOT LARGE First Line: But perhaps %the heart Last Line: They are the fish, %going on %with their own concerns GREAT POWERS ONCE RAGED THROUGH YOUR BODY First Line: Great powers once raged Last Line: The narrow slashes of red have been riveted in GREEN-STRIPED MELONS Poem Text First Line: They lie / under the stars in a field Last Line: The sign of their ripeness Subject(s): Melons; Conduct Of Life GROUNDFALL PEAR First Line: It is the one he chooses Last Line: That place he takes first HALF-SLEEPING Last Line: Again and again %in this night's dark rain HAND First Line: A hand is not four fingers and a thumb Last Line: A hand turned upwards holds only a single, transparent question %unanswerable, humming like bees, it HAPPINESS First Line: I think it was from the animals Last Line: Out of the trees protection and come in HAWK CRY First Line: I do not know Last Line: Watched a little as it did HEART AS ORIGAMI First Line: Each one has its shape Last Line: Not one of the lives of this world the heart does not choose HEART STARTNG AND STOPPING IN THE LATE DARK First Line: I cannot tell Last Line: To sit there a while in the petals, altering nothing HEAT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My mare, when she was in heat Last Line: But desire, desire is long Subject(s): Desire; Animals; Horses HEAT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My mare, when she was in heat Subject(s): Animals; Horses HEAT First Line: My mare, when she was in heat Subject(s): Animals; Horses HEAT OF AUTUMN Last Line: On the hook it belongs on in a closet soon to be empty, %and calling it pleasure HESITATION First Line: Sometimes only a slowing Last Line: With the scent of the plum tree just before it opens HISTORY AS THE PAINTER BONNARD First Line: Because nothing is ever finished Last Line: Though it is not the same; %her fine face neither right nor wrong, only thoroughly his HOUSE IN WINTER First Line: Here %in the year's late tidewash Last Line: Nor expectant, but every cell awakened at that knock HUNGRY GHOSTS First Line: The flavors I HAVE NO USE FOR VIRGINS I IMAGINE MYSELF IN TIME First Line: I imagine myself in time looking back on myself Last Line: I whose choices made her what she will be? I WRITE THESE WORDS TO DELAY First Line: What can I do with these thoughts Last Line: To delay the other words that are waiting IN A NET OF BLUE AND GOLD First Line: When the moored boat lifts, for its moment IN APRIL SOMETHING STARTED Last Line: In april something started. In april something stopped IN SMOOTH WATER THE MOUNTAINS SUSPEND THEMSELVES Poem Text First Line: Here, where shallows and hillside Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IN SMOOTH WATER THE MOUNTAINS SUSPEND THEMSELVES First Line: Here, where shallows and hillside Last Line: How they rest like folded wings in the clear water %patient,waiting, having borne us this far Subject(s): Environment; Nature IN THAT WORLD, THE ANGELS WEAR FINS Last Line: Downward the rest of their lives IN THAT WORLD, THE ANGELS WEAR FINS IN THE YEAR EIGHT HUNDRED First Line: Because of bad weather Last Line: To better contemplate the various fates of man IN YELLOW GRASS First Line: In the yellow grass Last Line: Only the wild scent of earth will be left %to tremble after IN YOUR HANDS First Line: I begin to grow extravagant Last Line: That invent themselves %slowly into life INFLECTION FINALLY UNGRASPABLE BY GRAMMAR First Line: I haven't yet found the pronoun through which to touch it directly Last Line: They do this less and less these days, it seems INSPIRATION First Line: Think of those chinese monks' tales Last Line: Is an accident, though certain efforts make you accident-prone.' %the rest slants fox-like, in and o INVOCATION First Line: This august night, raccoons IT IS EASY TO BE FASCINATED WITH DEATH IT IS NIGHT. IT IS VERY DARK First Line: Rainfall past any interrogation Last Line: Like an elephant trained to paint what is in her heart IT WAS LIKE THIS: YOU WERE HAPPY First Line: It was like this: %you were happy, then you were sad Last Line: Sometimes you ate roasted chestnuts, sometimes persimmons ITHACA IN ARMS First Line: Oh, yes, the shuttle JUST BELOW THE SURFACE Poem Text First Line: Just below the surface, fish, still Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore JUST BELOW THE SURFACE First Line: Just below the surface, fish, still Last Line: Yet somehow, in another shadow of the same water %are still there Subject(s): Seashore JUSTICE WITHOUT PASSION First Line: My neighbor's son, learning piano KINGDOM First Line: At times %the heart Last Line: What it once owned KNOWING NOTHING First Line: Love is not the reason Last Line: Like love. Or would you think that the heart? LAKE AND MAPLE Poem Text Recitation First Line: I want to give myself Subject(s): Peace LAKE AND MAPLE First Line: I want to give myself Last Line: Then give me the song Subject(s): Peace LEAVING THE OCTOBER PALACE First Line: In ancient japan, to travel Last Line: By daybreak, the soundless mountains bow under snow LETTER TO HUGO FROM LATER First Line: Dear dick: in order to xerox your book I had to break Last Line: What you can for the horses. Your tardy friend, %jane LIKE THE SMALL HOLE BY THE PATH-SIDE SOMETHING LIVES IN Poem Text Last Line: Small holes that something unweighed by the self-scale lives in Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LIKE TWO NEGATIVE NUMBERS MULTIPLIED BY RAIN Poem Text First Line: Lie down, you are horizontal. Last Line: Into oranges and olives Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LIVES OF THE HEART First Line: Are ligneous, muscular, chemical Last Line: The heavy gate-violent, serene, consenting, suffering it all LOVE AMID OWL-CRIES Poem Text First Line: It is not Subject(s): Birds; Owls LOVE AMID OWL-CRIES First Line: It is not Last Line: The fact that there is a door Subject(s): Birds; Owls LOVE OF AGED HORSES First Line: Because I know tomorrow Last Line: No luck is as boundless as theirs LULLABYE First Line: Always there is desire MATHEMATICS Poem Text First Line: I have envied those Last Line: I lied, or did not lie, / in answer Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MEETING First Line: The rat was fat and healthy and equally surprised Last Line: With its single, high, and unwashed corner window MEETING THE LIGHT COMPLETELY First Line: Even the long-beloved Last Line: What is said by all lovers: %'what fools we were, not to have seen.' MESMER First Line: These mail-ordered tulips Last Line: Whispering, how is it done belong MILK Poem Text First Line: From time to time the placid Last Line: From cut bank Subject(s): Calm; Milk; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Milkmen; Milkmaids MOMENT Poem Text First Line: A person wakes from sleep Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration MOMENT First Line: A person wakes from sleep Last Line: Who must so love their lives Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MOUNTAIN First Line: One moment, the mountain is clear Last Line: While a single wild goose passed, silently climbing MULBERRIES First Line: By the time Last Line: The unguarded, late-sweetening %pleasures MULE HEART First Line: On the days when the rest Last Line: This too is a gift of the gods %calm and complete MUSIC First Line: Why should they please us so MUSIC LIKE WATER First Line: How, on a summer night Last Line: That answer the dark on a summer night and fall still MY WEATHER Poem Text First Line: Wakeful, sleepy, hungry, anxious, Last Line: I hold these Subject(s): Life NARCISSUS: TEL AVIV, BAGHDAD, SAN FRANCISCO; FEBRUARY 1991 First Line: And then the precise Last Line: As soon refuse, battered and soaking, the dark mahogany rain NEEDLES OF PINE, OF MORNING First Line: By this morning, the color has gone from the gold NOT MOVING EVEN ONE STEP First Line: The rain falling too lightly to shape Last Line: How silently the heart pivots on its hinge NOVEMBER ANGELS First Line: Late dazzle %of yellow Last Line: However the passing brightness %hurts their eyes NOVEMBER, REMEMBERING VOLTAIRE First Line: In the evenings OF GRAVITY & ANGELS First Line: And suddenly, again Last Line: When all of it joins in OF THE BODY First Line: And what of that other net? The one Last Line: Though a shadow flickers, remembering ON READING BRECHT First Line: A child packs snow around a bit of stone ON THE BEACH Poem Text First Line: Uncountable tiny pebbles Subject(s): Nature; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE BEACH First Line: Uncountable tiny pebbles Last Line: All you are going to lose, though any of it would do Subject(s): Nature; Seashore ON THE CURRENT EVENTS First Line: The shadows of countries are changing ONE LIFE IS SPENT, THE OTHER SPENDS US Last Line: A tail slightly kinked, a preference for one windowsill %over another OPTIMISM First Line: More and more I have come to admire resilience Last Line: Mitochondria, figs-all this resinous, unretractable earth OSIRIS First Line: They may tell you the god is broken OTHER EARTH First Line: At first we embrace trees PATCHED CARPET First Line: Bought in a flea market, %cheaply Last Line: The white dust covers my hands PATTERN THAT CONNECTS First Line: Tonight, as you touched my face PERCEPTIBILITY IS A KIND OF ATTENTIVENESS First Line: It is not enough Last Line: The treasure -- oh even the treasure -- %treasure of water PERCOLATION First Line: In this rain that keeps us inside Last Line: Rising through cell-strands of xylem, leaflet and lung-flower %back into air PERISHABLE, IT SAID Poem Text First Line: Perishable, it said on the plastic container Last Line: Inside that hour with its perishing perfumes and clashings Subject(s): Middle Age PLENITUDE First Line: Even from a book of aging plates Last Line: It is enough and more POE: AN ASSAY (I) First Line: In 'the gold bug,' the overt finding of the treasure Last Line: In poe the worry is like the long-cooled lead in baltimore house-glass, settled and clear POEM WITH TWO ENDINGS First Line: Say 'death' and the whole room freezes Last Line: (but the vanished, the vanished beloved, o where?) POMEGRANATES First Line: Under %a thin coat of dust PROMISE First Line: Mysteriously they entered, those few minutes Last Line: The dog's tail wagged a little in his dream PROTEUS ENTERING WATER First Line: For him, the world was tangential, to be abandoned RAIN IN MAY First Line: The blackened iron REBUS Poem Text First Line: You work with what you are given Last Line: How can I enter this question the clay has asked? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness RECALLING A SUNG DYNASTY LANDSCAPE First Line: Palest wash of stone-rubbed ink RECURRING POSSIBILITY First Line: Asked on the icy steps Last Line: Like her have nothing to say RED POPPIES First Line: Inside the metal, all things blossom Last Line: Could be lifted -- red flower and black seed -- for the first time REFUSAL First Line: The usual stories are of foxes and thick-pelted wolves Last Line: Refusing the clear necessity, the dream-command RESPITE First Line: Day after quiet day passes Last Line: Incomprehensible sunlight falls on my hand RESTRINGING THE BEADS First Line: One by one RIPENESS First Line: Ripeness is %what falls away with ease Last Line: It too will leave on that clean knife RITUAL First Line: Before, in the cluttered shop Last Line: And the elders, these new elders - what of them? Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 ROOM First Line: For two years it lay almost unentered Last Line: Which half-starved, shivering hopes might follow it in ROSES OF THE NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY First Line: Dry summers %the deer come down Last Line: They slowly rise SEAWATER STIFFENS CLOTH Poem Text First Line: Seawater stiffens cloth long after it’s dried Last Line: Call her afterward tree, call her seawater angled by silence Subject(s): Life SEE HOW THE ROADS ARE STREWN SENTENCINGS Poem Text First Line: A thing too perfect to be remembered Last Line: Think assailable thoughts, or be lonely Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SHADOW First Line: That morning, sitting quietly Last Line: I almost could see it--for a long silent time, remembering her SILENCE First Line: One acquaintance says of another Last Line: And quietly listens %love lowers its stricken face so no one will see SILK CORD First Line: In the dream the string had broken Last Line: That I myself had scattered, that I myself must find SLEEP First Line: Horses, yes. %dogs, old ones especially Last Line: Quilt the drowsy night-song of the mortal SLEEPING First Line: Here, we are one geography SLEEPING IN THE AFTERNOON First Line: The heat-stunned hills at midday SONG First Line: The tree, cut down this morning SONOMA FIRE Poem Text First Line: Large moon the deep orange of embers. Last Line: The griefs of others—beautiful, at a distance Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SPEED AND PERFECTION First Line: How quickly the season of apricots is over Last Line: Eating those I can, before the bruises appear SPEED WITH WHICH BLUE NEEDLES MOVE First Line: As I walk through the daylight SPELL TO BE SAID BEFORE SLEEP Poem Text First Line: Each pot now hang bright Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares SPELL TO BE SAID BEFORE SLEEP First Line: Each pot now hang bright Last Line: Guard them, o earth, in your travels Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep STANDING DEER First Line: As the house of a person Last Line: Three deer stood like a blessing, then vanished STING First Line: You can almost feel it Last Line: Not pleasure, not pain STORM: YADDO, 1989 First Line: The night's stampede of winds Last Line: The tall trees out the window turn toward winter STORY First Line: A woman tells me Last Line: So her daughter would not see, though she would see STREAM OF IT First Line: They might say, a white bird in the snow Last Line: And light is a salmon, %always returning, blindly, to its source SURROUNDED BY ALL THE FALLING First Line: After four days of rain SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS First Line: Even generous august Last Line: Fold that loneliness, one moment, two, love, back into your arms TAMARA STANDS IN STRAW First Line: And dreams her long-necked, sweet-grass reveries TASK First Line: It is a simple garment, this slipped-on world Last Line: Sunlight never reaches, but the earth still blooms THAT FALLING First Line: You turn towards meteor showers in august THE DEAD DO NOT WANT US DEAD Poem Text Subject(s): Death THE DECISION Poem Text First Line: There is a moment before a shape Last Line: It cannot be after turned back from Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE ENVOY Poem Text First Line: One day in that room, a small rat. Last Line: Long-legged and thirsty, covered with foreign dust Subject(s): Rats; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE HEAT OF AUTUMN Poem Text Last Line: And calling it pleasure Subject(s): Autumn; Fall THE PEAR Poem Text First Line: November. One pear Last Line: Dawnlight to dawnlight, I look: it is still there Subject(s): Aging THE RITUAL Poem Text First Line: Before, in the cluttered shop Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 THE STONE OF HEAVEN First Line: Here, where the rivers dredge up Last Line: And seeing, begin to assemble the plain stones of earth. Subject(s): Colors; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE WOODPECKER KEEPS RETURNING Poem Text Last Line: The handsome red-capped bird, the missing mate Subject(s): Woodpeckers THEOLOGY First Line: If the flies did not hurry themselves to the window Last Line: This miraculous story, but everyone hurries to believe it THIEF First Line: Every fire is stolen Last Line: And then that too is faithfully stripped from our arms THINGS KEEP SORTING THEMSELVES Poem Text First Line: Does the butterfat know it is butterfat, Last Line: No one can ever know that Subject(s): Male-female Relationships THIS LOVE First Line: A lucky woman Last Line: Their course hide, the blown chaff of their scent -- %this love is strong THIS RIPENESS First Line: Thin roads splice field to field THIS WAS ONCE A LOVE POEM First Line: This was once a love poem, %before its haunches thickened, its breath grew Last Line: With a single finger outstretched like a tiny flame THREE TIMES MY LIFE HAS OPENED First Line: Three times my life has opened Last Line: Or the one red leaf the snow releases in march TO DRINK First Line: I want to gather your darkness Last Line: Taking everything in with the water, everything TO HEAR THE FALLING WORLD First Line: Only if I move my arm a certain way TO JUDGMENT: AN ASSAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You change a life Subject(s): Judgments; Love TONIGHT THE INCALCULABLE STARS TOWARD THE INFINITE First Line: You might take it for a given TOWARD THE SOLSTICE First Line: 9 a.M. Already TREE First Line: It is foolish %to let a young redwood Last Line: Softly, calmity, immensity taps at your life TROMPE L'OEIL First Line: What you understand no longer matters TWO WASHINGS First Line: One morning in a strange bathroom Last Line: Back onto the stove with two steadying hands UKIYO-E First Line: The blues' plunge UNDER THE RIVER First Line: Under the river of the world, the world Last Line: The ceilngs stencilled with water lilies, stars VILNIUS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: For a long time Last Line: I doubted if I should ever come back Subject(s): Conduct Of Life VINEGAR AND OIL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Wrong solitude vinegars the soul Last Line: Of a fallen donkey, above a church door in finland Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness WAKING THE MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP Poem Text First Line: But with the sentence: “use your failures for paper.” meaning, I Last Line: Of ruined paper into a basket, pulling them out again Subject(s): Middle Age; Writing & Writers WAKING THIS MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP First Line: But with this sentence: %'use your failures for paper' Last Line: Into a basket, pulling them out again WATER DIAMONDS First Line: Inside perfection, continents could hide Last Line: Within their thousand lives recall WEDDING First Line: The high windows stream with fish Last Line: Mirror of itself -- mercuric oxide tipped from flask to flask %first two, then one, wedded for life WEIGHING First Line: The heart's reasons Last Line: Then it asks more, and we give it WHAT FALLS First Line: Today, what falls is wavering Last Line: But crystallne and visible, as we are WHAT IS USUAL IS NOT WHAT IS ALWAYS Last Line: Only the reminder that there is exception WHAT THE HEART WANTS First Line: See then %what the heart wants Last Line: Whatever asks, heart kneels and offers to bear WHITE CURTAIN IN SUNLIGHT AND WIND First Line: More and more Last Line: After, it could almost walk away WINDOW First Line: I am not %opened or closed Last Line: Like new lovers taking their fill in the crowded dark WITH SINGING AND BANNERS First Line: Demosthenes, a wise man, filled his mouth WITHIN THIS TREE Last Line: There is no other world WOMAN IN RED COAT First Line: Some questions cannot be answered WORLD First Line: Half-shop, half-museum, it occupies Last Line: Perfectly scrolled and dry for half a century or more |
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