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Down Sally Cow Lane and Elsewhere

What / is a form without an outside? What is a country

without an other? What is a poem but a gesture
without an other? What is a poem but a gesture
of reaching? Can a poem save a nation? Can a poem
of reaching? Can a poem save a nation? Can a poem
survive a nation? Can a poem survive a savior? Can
survive a nation? Can a poem survive a savior? Can
a poem feed a people? Can a body survive / a people? —Claire Schwartz
a poem feed a people? Can a body survive / a people?
—Claire Schwartz

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