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1975

Anne Spencer

Turn an earth clod
Peel a shaley rock
In fondness molest a curly worm
Whose familiar is everywhere
Kneel
And the curly worm sentient now
Will light the word that tells the poet what a poem is.




Quotes of the Day

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
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Poems of the Day
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    The Town Marshal
    by Edgar Lee Masters
    The Prohibitionists made me Town Marshal When the saloons were voted out, Because when I was a drinking man, Before I joined the church, I killed a Swede At the saw-mill near Maple Grove.