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Re: PPB: Garden Wireless / Carl Sandburg

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From: Michael Pendrago
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:13
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On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 11:02:42 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 1:26:39 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> >
> > Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
> > Garden Wireless, by Carl Sandburg
> > [...]
> > this lone red tulip, a woman's mouth of passionate kisses, a nun's mouth
> > of sweet thinking, here topping a straight line of green
> Okay, it has two great opening lines ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The above-quoted lines are not the poem's opening lines; but, instead, appear in the second stanza.

I shall ignore (for the moment) my nagging suspicion that you haven't read the poem, and ask what you feel makes the imagery of these lines so "great."

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