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    Dark Woods and Other Poems
    Dark Woods and Other Poems
    Dark Woods and Other Poems
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    Dark Woods and Other Poems

    By Richard Seltzer

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    Short collection of poems, from over the course of over fifty years. Includes: Dark Woods, Mist that Rises, The Way of the Web, Finnegan Died, Brief Reprieve, The View from Beacon Hill, On the Invasion of Cambodia, Things are War or Less the Same, on hearing Voznesenski, Journey to the West and others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateOct 25, 2018
    ISBN9781455448203
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      Dark Woods and Other Poems - Richard Seltzer

      DARK WOODS AND OTHER POEMS BY RICHARD SELTZER

      Published by Seltzer Books. seltzerbooks.com

      established in 1974, as B&R Samizdat Express

      offering over 14,000 books

      feedback welcome: [email protected]

      Dark Woods

      She said she feared dark woods

      like those nearby

      yet knew not why;

      for dark or light,

      the substance is the same,

      the beasts are tame;

      there's naught to fear but fancy.

      And yet the fear held tight

      that only light was right,

      that even night needed a moon.

      She said the tales

      that she had heard,

      when but a babe,

      of monsters lurking

      in the dark,

      had left a mark

      upon her mind

      too deep

      for reason's rubbing

      to erase.

      So we let

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