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Edith Henrich

Edith Henrich was born in New Jersey and educated at Barnard. Her poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.

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Whether Like Deer or Like Bird

By Edith Henrich

Spring 1946 | Poetry

Whether like a deer lightly on talented feet,
scholar of brambles, incredible racer of meadows,
intuitive knower of leaves and the leaves’ shadows,
antlered with boughs to disguise the shallow retreat,—

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