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January Morning: Suite 12

William Carlos Williams

Long yellow rushes bending
above the white snow patches;
purple and gold ribbon
of the distant wood:
                       what an angle
you make with each other as
you lie there in contemplation.
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From Al Que Quiere! | The Four Seas Company, 1917
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