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Poem May 18, 1987 Issue

Not by words alone

Grace Hough Carter

I assumed that demonstration
would follow taut thought-stringing,
know-after-know of bright statements.

Love out-verbed and re-noun'd me—
uncapped and ungowned me, quite
unsentenced and unbound me.

Grace Hough Carter

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