The Ten Commandments
To make a prairie it takes a meadow and one bee
But what prodigious mowing we did make
And dreamed we dreamed we dreamed
Nobody not even the rain has such small hands
I look down at my hand and there’s a wrinkling ocean in it
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Such waltzing was not easy
I am inhabited by a cry
Was it a vision or a waking dream?
When I open my eyes you are what I wanted to see
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(Emily Dickinson, “To Make a Prairie"/Theodore Roethke, “I Knew a Woman”/James Galvin, “Hematite Lake”)
(E.E. Cummings, “somewhere I have never traveled"/James Galvin, “So Long”)
(William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”/Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”/Sylvia Plath, “Elm”)
(Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”/W.S. Merwin “A Birthday”)
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