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FOR OUR BETTER GRACES by JAMES GALVIN

Poem Explanation Poet Analysis

First Line: GOD LOVES / THE RAIN, NOT US
Last Line: "her fragrance
Subject(s): GOD; LOVE; PINE TREES; RAIN; TREES;
God loves
the rain, not us.
Ours is
what spills over,
what we look for
that finds us:
innocence
by association.
Cloud shadows
feel their way,
rapid and blind,
over the face
of the prairie.
Pine trees
atop the ridge
row the world
into the dampblack sky.
God's mistress
rides by
on a feather of water.
After she is gone
her fragrance
is everywhere.


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