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Article: Love and geometry.(Stories out of school)(Poem)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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I have saved all the poems I wrote in high school. Most of them are poems of desperate, despairing, unrequited love, to a boy I called Apollo (real name: Dick T.), written in a style heavily influenced by Sara Teasdale and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Here is one of them:
Written in Geometry
October 3, 1968
The leaves are bruised with scarlet,
The sky is seared with blue;
The hills are wrung in purple,
The grass is weeping dew--
To live with all that agony
They must have loved you, too.
My high school geometry teacher, cleaning out her home last year before moving into a retirement community, sent me a homework assignment of ...
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