"'O city ladies' Your coats wrapped, Your hips a possession Your shoes arched Your walk is sharp Your breasts Pertain to lingerie"
— George Oppen

January 1, 1970

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from "Discrete Series", 1934; New Collected Poems, New Directions, 2002,