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Secrets

Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941

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  The earth is motionless
  And poised in space…
  A great bird resting in its flight
  Between the alleys of the stars.
  It is the wind's hour off….
  The wind has nestled down among the corn….
  The two speak privately together,
  Awaiting the whirr of wings.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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Lola Ridge

Lola Ridge was an anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde feminist and Marxist publications best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences She along with other political poets of the early Modernist period has been coming under increasing critical scrutiny at the beginning of the twenty-first century more…

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