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Born in 1920 / Died in 1994 / United States / English

Poems by Amy Clampitt

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A Hedge Of Rubber Trees

... Passing, I'd see her shades drawn, no light behind the rubber trees ...

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A Hermit Thrush

... certain, as that the longest daywill come again, will seem to hold its breath, ...

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A Silence

... unearthly masquerade(we shall be changed)a silence opens *the larval feeder ...

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Beach Glass

... The ocean, cumbered by no business more urgent ...

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Easter Morning

... imageless after the hammering ...

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Exmoor

... y diphthong, and as a Somer-set man, the warmth he had for ...

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Fog

... as though proving color and contour ...

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Nothing Stays Put

... heir featherweight wheels of cobalt remind me of, it'sa row of them among prim colonnades of cosmos, ...

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On The Disadvantages Of Central Heating

... delicious to think ofhassocks pulled in close, toasting- ...

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Salvage

... intact ice-tint, a rarityfresh from the Pleistocene ...

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Syrinx

... Thespesiae iache:those last-chance vestiges ...

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Vacant Lot With Pokeweed

... at nothing—and look! here'sa pokeweed, sprung up from seed ...

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The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews

... But the sun ...

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A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street

... climbing tentpole, frilled and stippledyet again with bloom ...

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A Hairline Fracture

... where the Underground’s upper reaches have the character, ...