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Born in May 27, 1932 / United States / English

Poems by Linda Pastan

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Linda Pastan - Vermilion

... As if at the ritual moment of departure ...

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Shadblow

... are swimming in our waters now,breaching the skin ...

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Faith

... what you say about the size of the universe, ...

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Elizabethan

...   Could she have guessed that the words ...

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Why Are Your Poems So Dark?

...   And doesn't the white page  ...

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The Safecracker

... with her rosy knees sealed tightly together,  ...

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The Quarrel

... standing so upright, so unforgiving,  ...

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Counting Backwards

... t guessed the destination&mdash ...

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Agoraphobia

... It is not fear that holds me here but passion  ...

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The Answering Machine

... for the accidental mercy of machines,  ...

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Folk Tale

... they brought the cow into the house, straight from the barn,  ...

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I Am Learning To Abandon the World

... I have given up melodic lines of hills, ...

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The Months

... December The white dove of winter ...

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On the Steps of the Jefferson Memorial

... Athena, the very mother of wisdom, ...

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The Birds

... though we stand in our doorways ...