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Monday, April 18, 2011

Word


(Stephen Spender, poet laureate, 1965-1966,
the only non-U.S. citizen chosen for the office)

WORD

The word bites like a fish.
Shall I throw it back free
Arrowing to that sea
Where thoughts lash tail and fin?
Or shall I pull it in
To rhyme upon a dish?

~ Stephen Spender (1909-1995), British poet, translator, editor, and writer of essays and memoirs

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