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A defense of poesy…

June 6, 2013 By Jordan

I will put my shapeless days behind me,
fencing off the past, as a golden rind
of sand parts slipshod sea from solid land.

…Tomorrow, by Dennis O’Driscoll, from New and Selected Poems, and discovered by yours truly in Poetry (July 1999).

…a golden rind of sand parts slipshod sea from solid land.

Say that out loud.

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