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Home and Away: Poems | Rachel Wetzsteon
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A new collection of poems by the National Poetry Series winner includes a moving elegy for W. H. Auden; contemporary treatments of Narcissus, Pomona, and others; and meditations on a variety of topics closer to home. Original.
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Home and Away: Poems | Rachel Wetzsteon
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The World Had Fled
BY RACHEL WETZSTEON
The world had fled, with all its silly cares
and questionable aches, and in one swoon
we rose above its stupefying airs
like flying lovesick pigs up to the moon.
In that blue light where two lives equaled all,
our souls looked down upon a spinning ball.
Complete poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/53945/the-world-had-fled
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