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Winter 1963 • Vol. XXV No. 1 • Poetry |

Two Poems: Blue Days in February

For Philippe Saby-Viricel

This landscape which I study longest is
what most defies eyesight, where what seemed true
dissolves into a lucid line of blue,
and by perpetual metamorphosis
where a wood was or where a few birds flew
it draws my eyes out of the still distance
through season’s movement or shadow’s advance,

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