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Poems by Katha Pollitt

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Small Comfort

... comfort enough in such small daily momentsof beauty, renewal, calm, too late to imagine ...

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Song

... no more Will the ambiguous arm-waves spell ...

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Akiba

...   Where the wilderness enters, the world, the song of the world ...

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Effort at Speech Between Two People

...   like glad horns blowing, and birds tilting, and an arm about me ...

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Song for Dead Children

... We set great wreaths of brightness on the graves of the passionate ...

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The Speaking Tree

...   The trunk of the speaking tree looks like a tree-trunk ...

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[Murmurs from the earth of this land?]

... The sun of plants speaks in your voice, and the infinite shells of ...

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Song (“The world is full of loss ... ”)

...    my home is where we make our meeting-place, ...

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Night Feeding

... knows sleep, knows growth, the sex of fire and grass, ...

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Waterlily Fire

...   I was the island without bridges, the child down whose blazing ...

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The Speed of Darkness

... Whoever despises the cunt despises the life of the child ...

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Desdichada

... II. While this my day and my people are a country not yet born ...

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Poem

... Considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values ...