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May Swenson
Major works:
“Analysis of Baseball” • “That the Soul May Wax Plump” • “Strawberrying” • “Question” • A Cage of Spines • Nature: Poems Old and New
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Read a passage from Cold Colors by May Swenson
Cold Colors
May SwensonSweetpea
pinks
in the winter.
Sun sets
through thin
windy
branches
dark
like snarled string
over water’s hard
stretched white scratched
skin.
On sky’s
clear royal icy
cheek blush
tints
of spring.
pinks
in the winter.
Sun sets
through thin
windy
branches
dark
like snarled string
over water’s hard
stretched white scratched
skin.
On sky’s
clear royal icy
cheek blush
tints
of spring.
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