Elizabeth Bishop - Closed Quotes

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Her face is closed as a nut,
closed as a careful snail
or a thousand-year-old seed.

Elizabeth Bishop

But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, "I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all.

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