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Though I know well enough
/ To hunt the Lady’s Slipper now
/ Is playing blindman’s-buff,
/ For it was June She put it on
/ And grey…

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The fascination of what’s difficult
/ Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
/ Spontaneous joy and natural…

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I went out to the hazel wood, / Because a fire was in my head, / And cut and peeled…

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When you need to warm yourself,
/ When you are hungry to share a word,
/ When you crave a bread crumb,
/ Don’t…

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I had seen coconut trees and tamarinds
/ and mangos
/ the white sails drying in the sun
/ the smoke of breakfast across the sky
/ at…

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An Iranian professor I know asked me
/ the first time we met, as he’d asked so many
/ students:…