Poets/Mary Barnard

Mary Barnard

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Rotting in the wet gray air …

Mary Barnard

The country lies flat, expressionless as the face of a stranger. …

Mary Barnard

Ink-black, but moving independently …

Mary Barnard

Out of a high meadow where flowers …

Mary Barnard

What’s geography? What difference what mountain …

Mary Barnard

At supper time an ondine’s narrow feet …

Mary Barnard

Wheel of sorrow, centerless. …

Mary Barnard

After reading Ash Wednesday …

Mary Barnard

The seas has made a wall for its defence …

Mary Barnard

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