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July 28, 2017

I have a life that did not become,
that turned aside and stopped,
astonished:
I hold it in me like a pregnancy or
as on my lap a child
not to grow or grow old but dwell on.

—A.R. Ammons
  American poet(1926-1993)

Source:”Easter Morning” in The Selected Poems (buy from Amazon)





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