Nancy G. Westerfield Emily Dickinson Taking the Train Not the Erie-Lackawanna Route of Phoebe Snow, although this morning she is dressed For it, in Phoebe's white, wearing white For the way she...
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THE LAST WORD Know thine enemy NANCY G. WESTERFIELD Fifty years ago, they fought on opposite sides in the Pacific war that scarred them both. One is the professor-husband whom I married in 1950,...
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POEMS Nancy G. Westerfield Erasing the Angles As dancers know it: akimbo can never be Beautiful, but useful only for comic Effect: and all the hours before the barre Are given to forcing fluidity...
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NANCY G. WESTERFIELD VIRGIN AND CHILD Against a sixteenth-century snatch of landscape Accurate as a photograph: the fruited tree, A calf, a distant castle on a hill, All the conundra of the...
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