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i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and love and wings: and [...]

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who knows if the moon’s

who knows if the moon’s
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky–filled with pretty
people?
(and if you and i should
get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we’d go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city [...]

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of one

I knew this girl
..Her smile
Her laugh
Her song
..She fell
I knew this girl
..Oh pride
Damn pride
Beautiful pride
..I fell
I knew this girl
..I knew this girl
I knew this girl
I knew this girl
..This girl is gone

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a poem out of season

Raindrop
Beloved raindrop fresh and fair
Perfuming this sad dry air
Bringing life and making green
All you see fit to wash clean
Do you recall from whence you came
The rushing flood, the hand of Cain
High and higher your power swept
Catching the tears Noah wept
Or do you remember God’s good grace
A rainbow’s thought upon your face
The mighty choir in which [...]

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