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WHERE YOUR FEET GO by JOSEPH AUSLANDER

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHERE YOUR FEET GO NO WIND STIRS
Last Line: ON MY LIDS THE GRADUAL SEAL.
Subject(s): DREAMS; NATURE; SLEEP; WIND; NIGHTMARES;
Where your feet go no wind stirs,
No wind ruffles the chestnut boughs,
No wind ruffles the chestnut burrs;
Braided thick on your brows
Coils of great slow sunlight drowse.

Your eyes against their lashes dream
As birds through covert gazing deep:
Mother of the tawny gleam,
And the silence the hills keep,
And the amber depth of sleep.

Shield me with your languorousness;
Let my heavy spirit feel
Feet, hair, eyes flame downward; press
On my heart the glittering heel,
On my lids the gradual seal.



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