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Peregrine Falcon
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
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)
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...