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William Carlos Williams

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To the Ghost of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Autumn 1960 | Poetry

To celebrate your brief lifeas you lived it grimlyunder attack as it happensto any common soldierblack or whitesurrounded by the heavy scentof orange blossoms solitaryin your lowlying farm among the young trees Wise and gentlevoicedold colored wom [...]