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Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt,
Leap, leap between us and the easy out;
Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go;
Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow.

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Restless, incautious, I want to talk violence,
Speak wild poems, hush, be still, pray grace
Taken forever; and after, lie long in the dense
Dark of your embrace, asleep between earth and space.

Marie Ponsot

Marie Ponsot

Marie Ponsot

Born: April 6, 1921

Died: July 5, 2019 (aged 98)

Bio: Marie Ponsot, née Birmingham, was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.

Known for:

The Bird Catcher (1998)
Springing (2002)
Beat not the poor desk (1982)
Collected Poems (2016)
Easy: Poems (2009)

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