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Well In Ruined Courtyard By Adrienne Rich
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Well In Ruined Courtyard

Down this old well
what leaves have fallen,
what cores of eaten apples,
what scraps of paper!
An old trash barrel.
November, no one comes.

But I come, trying
to breathe that word
which should make the leaves fly up
like a green jet
to clothe the naked tree,
the whole fruit leap to the bough,
the scraps like fleets of letters
sail up into my hands.

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