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CARREFOUR by AMY LOWELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: O YOU, / WHO CAME UPONE ME ONCE
Last Line: OF THE FOREST BEES?
Subject(s): GAYS & LESBIANS; HOMOEROTICISM; LESBIANS; GAY WOMEN; GAY MEN;
O you,
Who came upon me once
Stretched under apple-trees just after bathing,
Why did you not strangle me before speaking
Rather than fill me with the wild honey of your words
And then leave me to the mercy
Of the forest bees?



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