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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

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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