"I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: The shapes a bright container can contain!"
Theodore Roethke

January 1, 1970

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"I Knew a Woman," ll. 1 - 4

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