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The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,
White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.

Excerpt from ‘The Moon and the Yew Tree’

—I’m always amazed of what feels new re-reading old poems. We change. They hit surprisingly different.

excerpt from Tulips

They have propped my head between the pillow and the sheet-cuff
Like an eye between two white lids that will not shut.

I don’t remember when I first read this. Time to revisit. Heat of early summer seems appropriate somehow.