“And then there is the spring park, damp as if freshly peeled, sweet greenhouse, green cemetery with no dead in it—except, in some shaded woods, under some years of leaves and rotted cones, the body of a warbler like a whole note fallen from the sky—my old love for him, like a songbird's rib cage picked clean.”
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Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
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“If I pass a mirror, I turn away, I do not want to look at her, and she does not want to be seen.”
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“Minute by minute, I do not get up and just go to him—”
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“It is what I do now: not go, not see or touch.”
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“My body may never learn not to yearn for that one”
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“casting himself off a cliff in his fervor to get free of me.”
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“as he soars from the precipice edge, dreamy.”
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