Saturday's Poem: Looking at Pictures...

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Looking at Pictures to Be Put Away by Gary Snyder

Who was this girl
In her white night gown
Clutching a pair of jeans

On a foggy redwood deck.
She looks up at me tender,
Calm, surprised,

What will we remember
Bodies thick with food and lovers
After twenty years.

from The Back Country. © New Directions, 1957.

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