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TAURUS

  

I can be assured to find her most days

in one of those great inert apple-bough chairs

in her largest room, knotting and knotting the yarn

of the sleave of care with hard horn needles.

Nods me into my place, a smile, the intrusion

of chin into that sluggishly handsome neck of hers.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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