| I praise the gardeners, the worms and the small plants that praise each other | #LincolnParkConservatory #LincolnPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in From a Litany |

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| I praise the secrecy of doors, the openness of windows | #LincolnParkConservatory #LincolnPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in From a Litany |

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| Even the forced syllables of decline are breath | #ChicagoRiverwalk #ChicagoRiver #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in Breath |

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| When you see them tell them I am still here | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in Breath |

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| There is the sleep of one moment inside the next | #GrantMemorial #LincolnPark #Chicago #Illinois | Mark Strand in The Sleep |

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| No place to go, no reason to remain | #Chicago #ChicagoRiverwalk #TrumpInternational #ChicagoRiver #Illinois | Mark Strand in Coming to This |

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| Nothing is promised, nothing is taken away | #Chicago #MontrosePoint #LincolnPark #Illinois | Mark Strand in Coming to This |

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| We have done what we wanted | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in Coming to This |

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| Only you are there, saying hello to what you will be | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in Black Maps |

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| As they rise into being they are like breath | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in Black Maps |

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| The present is always dark | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in Black Maps |

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| Each moment is a place you've never been | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in Black Maps |

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| The good life gives no warning | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Good Life |

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| The weather, like tomorrow, like your life | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Good Life |

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| You are the ghost in the tree outside | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Good Life |

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| Lie down on the bright hill | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Dress |

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| Tomorrow your friends will come back | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in Tomorrow |

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| What did you say? Or was it something you did? | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in Tomorrow |

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| It is yesterday. It is still yesterday | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in Nostalgia |

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| It is an old story | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Room |

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| Already I am beginning again | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in Giving Myself Up |

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| The words follow each other downwind | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Remains |

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| I change and I am the same | #thimbleberry #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Remains |

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| He shall be saved by his poems | #trillium #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The New Poetry Handbook |

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| In one of those moments | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Dirty Hand |

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| No one suspected a thing | #trillium #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Dirty Hand |

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| They kiss the air | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in What to Think Of |

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| I half close my eyes | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in Moontan |

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| It will always be this way | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Man in the Mirror |

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| Why did I want so badly to get through to you? | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Man in the Mirror |

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| Taking you always farther away, farther away | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Man in the Mirror |

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| I remember how we used to stand | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Man in the Mirror |

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| Nothing is certain | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Man in the Tree |

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| Things are not only themselves in this light | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Man in the Tree |

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| Whatever you said at that moment fell quietly onto the ground | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #Newberg #Oregon | Mark Strand in The Man in the Tree |

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| I own nothing of value | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #Caliexplored #California | Mark Strand in The Tunnel |

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| Perhaps you are elsewhere | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #Caliexplored #California | Mark Strand in The Whole Story |

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| We all have reasons for moving | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #MtShasta #Caliexplored #California | Mark Strand in Keeping Things Whole |

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| And so they sit, gazing out between the trees | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #MtShasta #Caliexplored #California | Mark Strand in Old People on the Nursing Home Porch |

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| The brilliant rise of morning after morning | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #MtShasta #Caliexplored #California | Mark Strand in Violent Storm |

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| How we wish we were sunning ourselves in a world of familiar views | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #MtShasta #Caliexplored #California | Mark Strand in Violent Storm |

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| It was something like summer | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #Caliexplored #California | Mark Strand in When the Vacation Is Over for Good |

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| How we had wasted time as though there was nothing to do | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #Caliexplored #California | Mark Strand in When the Vacation Is Over for Good |

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| Knowing at last it couldn't go on forever | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #Caliexplored #California | Mark Strand in When the Vacation Is Over for Good |

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| Not a sound from their branches | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #Caliexplored #California | Mark Strand in Sleeping with One Eye Open |

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| They are still | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #Caliexplored #California | Mark Strand in Sleeping with One Eye Open |

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| Unmoved by what the wind does | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #Caliexplored #California | Mark Strand in Sleeping with One Eye Open |

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| And all that we suffered through having existed shall be forgotten | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #Yreka #Caliexplored #California | Donald Justice |

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| The orchard will bloom; someone will play the guitar | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #LakeShasta #Caliexplored #California | Donald Justice |

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| There is a gold light in certain old paintings | #Interstate5 #RoadTrip #Caliexplored #California | Donald Justice |

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