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DAU AL SET by TIMOTHY LIU

Poet Analysis

First Line: MARKING FACES SMEARED WITH ASH
Last Line: THAT WIDE ROOM CALLED THE WORLD
Subject(s): SOCIAL COMMENTARIES;
A steady wind. A childhood
that waits for us as daffodils
shed their husks on a shore
where no one has wept for years.
There is another world, time
enough for walks, for testimonies
of wood in a cast-iron stove.
A decrescendo. A wilderness
on fire. Then rain. Finally snow
with no one's footprints in it.


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