i am going to utter a tree, Nobody | |
shall stop me | |
but first | |
earth , the reckless oral darkness | |
5 |
raging with thin impulse |
i will have | |
a | |
dream | |
i | |
10 |
think it shall be roses and |
spring will bring her | |
worms rushing through loam. | |
(afterward i'll | |
climb | |
15 |
by tall careful muscles |
into nervous and accurate silence . . . . But first | |
you) | |
press easily | |
at first, it will be leaves | |
20 |
and a little harder |
for roses | |
only a little harder | |
last we | |
on the groaning flame of neat huge | |
25 |
trudging kiss moistly climbing hideously with |
large | |
minute | |
hips, O | |
.press | |
30 |
worms rushing slowly through loam |
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