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Babette Deutsch

Poetry

Summer 1948

Fountain and Unicorn

By Babette Deutsch

The streets that offer it a snag-toothed smile, An age that's paved with excrement, with wrongs That choke the breath, could make the precious vile If they could reach it, […]