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At Millay's Grave

 

Your ashes

In an urn

Buried here

Make me burn

For dear life

My candle

At one end—

Night outlasts

Wick and wax

Foe and friend

 

Samuel Menashe

 

 

From The Niche Narrows:
New and Selected Poems,
Talisman House, Publishers,
© 2000.  Reprinted by
permission of the author.

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