- Draping The Rotunda
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- Brazil
Inc.
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Elizabeth Bishop
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- The United States intends to
but will not. So charming!
- Boots and smaller signifiers:
a lawyer’s pet cello.
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- She summers with her popular
summer neuralgias. Oh the troubles
- & the raging quarrels with
German allergists over garrets.
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- Snow-amplified pillars on a
peninsula of creamshell pies.
- Lovely cut-glass windmills
& pearl radio sets.
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- At night, branches and doctors
frighten her in her dream boat.
- Winter trips upon the pavement
of a local planetarium.
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- Coffins in May in the kitchen
she had once dreamt of in May.
- All her miniature locomotives
deposited upon the bed.
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- Each letter of her name is one
more way of filling up a morning
- which is only Brazil surprised
by revolutionary november.
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- The November Revolution left
chapters in the branches,
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turtles weirdly silver infest a nursing home near some water.
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