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Winter 1958 • Vol. XX No. 1 • Poetry |

Calypso

By Patricia Goedicke

I am a woman become a sea:
So at a breath do you bring me

The swelling tide, the slip
Slide, and wash of the moon:
The sea-anemone of lip
Engulfs the falling room.

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