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Spring, Summer, and a World of Night
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THE ARTS
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5 / 1990 |
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Martin Galvin
Martin Galvin is a widely published poet who teaches in the
Washington, D.C., area. |
Summer Wind
The way the wind comes up before a rain
in any woods at all, you have a rain
before the rain. The way the wind
shivers the leaves and branches into sighs
and shaking like a woman wakened
from a dream of death, you have a storm
before the storm. The way the wind
paints the undersides of leaves
a silver gray, shaking down the weak-linked few,
you have a fall
before the fall. The way the wind
comes up, you have a rain before
a dream before a storm before the fall
to give you time to open all your mouths
and drink, like trees, whatever's good for you.
Hack
Spring is a shack with the s unhinged
by sun schemes. Spring is something to get
into so you can drive around the blooming park.
Spring is a hack, the merest bud of the hackles
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