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• Sonnet 29

  "Rather, instantly / Renew thy presence as a strong tree should"

  "my thoughts do twine and bud about thee like wild vines about a tree"

  "Drop heavily down- burst, shattered, everywhere!"
• Before You Were Mine

  "the decade before my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?"

  "where you sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine"

  "Your polka-dot dress blows around your legs. Marilyn"
• Neutral Tones

  "The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing, alive enough to have strength to die"

  "keen lessons that love deceives, and wrings with wrong have shaped to me"

  "the sun was white, as though chidden of God"
• The Farmer's Bride

  "the berries redden up to Christmas time"

  "more like a frightened fay"

  "shy as a leveret, swift as he"

  "two young maybe - but more's to do/ at harvest-time than bide and woo"
• Walking Away

  "Love is proved in the letting go"

  "Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem"

  "Like a satellite wrenched from its orbit go drifting away"
• Winter swans

  "Waterlogged earth gulping for breath at our feet"

  "like boats righting in rough weather"

  "porcelain over the stilling water"

  "They halved themselves in the dark water, / Icebergs of white feather"