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April 29, 2020

Silence loves the moments just after;
Its favorite part of a story is the end.
And I, who’ve so often betrayed it,
Wish to please it as much as I can.



—Stephen Dunn
   American poet and teacher (b. 1939)

Source:“Homage” in Poetry Magazine April 1996





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