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Footnote: Deeper Impression
[to a young lady loved by a poet]
Nubia, Greece, and
Wales: your ancestry says less---
to him---than your shirt
and ankle-length skirt (shoes gone)
his poems in hand as you read.
Despite this lost world,
you have proved yourself his Muse,
and his confidence
soared. You, his poems celebrate:
you both, this old man admires.
Kyakuchuu
