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Daily Archives: December 2, 2002
America is Still Singing: an envelope sonnet
America still sings, as Whitman wrote, but often-times the tune is fading low; and her heartbeat, not stopped, is often slow, causing a frequent skip, or sour note. Her voice is cracked from shouting in the wind of change that … Continue reading
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Tagged America, daily poems, envelope sonnet, sonnet, sonnet redoubled, Walt Whitman
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