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BLESSING MYSELF by DAVID IGNATOW

Poet Analysis

First Line: I BELIEVE IN STILLNESS
Last Line: I speak for it, / blessing myself
Subject(s): SILENCE;
I believe in stillness,
I close a door
and surrender myself
to a wall and converse
with it and ask it
to bless me.
The wall is silent.
I speak for it,
blessing myself.



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