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Winter 1939 • Vol. I No. 1 • Poetry |

The Cities’ Summer Death

The summer hospital enframes
In its fashionable windows
Boats brow-beaten by varnished storms
And curbed-off grass where no cows browse.

Grandfather feathery as thought
Furls his flurried wrapper and floats
Off his adjustable bed
Wafted on somnolent swan-boats.

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The Dandelion Girls

By R. T. S. Lowell

As home-made candles with fuzzy wicksBent birches sprout out of a knobWhere brilliant clouds have surged away —Clouds are luxuriantly grey.Slackly curling below this knobA stagnant brook is stiff with […]

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