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Portrait of A.R. Ammons
A.R. Ammons 1926–2001
4The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons

All afternoon the tree shadows, accelerating, lengthened till sunset shot them black into infinity: next morning darkness returned from the other infinity and the shadows caught ground and through the morning, slowing, hardened into noon.

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    you are lost in your iwn thoughts,paint a picture.
    Take me into your mind.

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