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New York Poets - An Anthology

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The Untidy and Simple

"Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it now there's no question even of that but only of holding on to the hard earth so as not to be thrown off with an occasional dream a robin flies across the upper corner of the window you brush your hair away and can it quite see or a wound will flash against the sweet faces of the others something like this is what you wanted to hear so why do you think of listening to something else we're all talkers it is true," she writes. "Underneath the talk lies the moving and not wanting to be moved the loose meaning untidy and simple like a threshing floor these then with some hazards of the course

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