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Peregrine Falcon

D.S. Martin

now thou but stoop’st to me—Ben Jonson The falcon like a teardrop heaven criesfrom higher than the city’s tallest towerdesigned to fall precisely through clear skiesnow hurtles at two...

Shepherd

D.S. Martin

On clear cold nights when far stars speckle skies& woodsmoke goes straight up & disappearsa dozen constellations to my eyesare dull blurs when I think back through the yearsto...

She Writes of Her Garden (June 1930)

D.S. Martin

My Grandmother writes of her garden wallflowers & cornflowers from early April showers like beautiful wounds healing across te bed from blue to purple to dark pink to light...