It’s been a long day

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Maybe poems are made of breath,

the way water, cajoled to boil,

says,

This is my soul, freed.

Dean Young, from “Scarecrow on Fire,” Fall Higher

 


Notes:

Freed

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“Maybe poems are
made of breath,
the way water, cajoled to boil, says,
This is my soul, freed.”

Dean Young, from “Scarecrow on Fire,” in Bender: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2012)


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