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Milkweed James Wright

 

While I stood here, in the open, lost in myself,
I must have looked a long time
Down the corn rows, beyond grass,
The small house,
White walls, animals lumbering toward the barn.
I look down now. It is all changed.
Whatever it was I lost, whatever I wept for
Was a wild, gentle thing, the small dark eyes
Loving me in secret.
It is here. At a touch of my hand,
The air fills with delicate creatures
From the other world.

From The Branch Will Not Break
Copyright © 1992 by James Wright, Wesleyan University Press
Reprinted by permission of the University Press of New England

 
 


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