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The Pool

by Hilda Doolittle

Hilda Doolittle

Are you alive?
I touch you.
You quiver like a sea-fish.
I cover you with my net.
What are you; banded one?




Quotes of the Day

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the Universe to do.
• Galileo Galilei


Poems of the Day
  • Henry David Thoreau
    The Hero
    by Henry David Thoreau
    What doth he ask? Some worthy task. Never to run Till that be done, that never done Under the sun. Here to begin All things to win