Poems April 2004
The well or the cup
How can
you tell
at the start
what you
can give away
and what
you must hold
to your heart.
What is
the well
and what is
a cup. Some
people get
drunk up.
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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 22 Number 8, on page 50
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