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Retirement

By on May 12, 2013 in Poetry | Comments Off

He had woven out a net, had woven it               with the measure of his touch and tongue,     loose, exuberant, he had thrown it     out upon the width of day, had flung it     forth, had given to his time a tongue,     had worked had lived largely on this earth;     his emblems now are gone, his songs are sung,     the children of his listening. He is a songbird     caught in a net, its head hung down, a stranger murmuring to himself, turbulent,...

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