Context
the same familiar poem
is somehow different from itself
when it appears in two different books
it reads one way
when it's in the author's own collection
it reads another way
perhaps a fresher way
in an anthology of verse
where you might not expect to see it
where the page might be yellower
or less yellow
where the type-font might be different
and so on
it might even read another way
when you see it online
and of course there's something special
about hearing it as you read it
Poetry by Thomas D

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Written on 2021-01-11 at 05:52




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