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Face So As to Pale Stars

This girl in Scotland,

That year,

In dusk,

Pale stars, in light blue over her,

Grass in dusk beneath her,

This girl, this Scotland, this world,

This dusk, these feet, this grass.

Face looking so in the dusk,

Face so as to pale stars.

From The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known #313 (Aesthetic Realism Foundation) © 1929, 1979 by Eli Siegel
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