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DEATH AT A GREAT DISTANCE by MARY OLIVER

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First Line: THE RIPE, FLOATING CAPS
Last Line: Like a stream of glowing syrup into / the dark water, as death / buds+ofblurted out of that perfectl
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
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