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The ancient usual retreat
Takes down the steps the scattering horde;
Adam again has met defeat,
Has missed connections with the Lord. But where the altar-candles die
Waits God, and in a corner prays
The last of heroes who will try
The Gate again in seven days.
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For me, it's like Jacob wrestling with the angel. In every encounter with a poem there is a possibility of an abysmal failure.
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I may,
if I can,
sleep; since I must,
die.
Some say,
rise.
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I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Josephine Jacobsen
Born:
August 19, 1908
Died:
July 9, 2003
(aged 94)
Bio:
Josephine Jacobsen was an American poet, short story writer, and critic. She was appointed the twenty-first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971.
Known for:
In the Crevice of Time (1995)
Contents of a minute
The sisters (1987)
On the Island (1989)
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