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Love

by Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley

The thing comes
of itself

(Look up
to see
the cat & the squirrel,
the one
torn, a red thing,
& the other
somehow immaculate




Quotes of the Day

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
• Ovid


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