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Finding a Long Gray Hair (self.poetry)

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Jane Kenyon, 1978

I scrub the long floorboards
in the kitchen, repeating
the motions of other women
who have lived in this house.
And when I find a long gray hair
floating in the pail,
I feel my life added to theirs.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I love Jane Kenyon. I love pastoral poetry. I know this isn't one of them, but it always thrills my heart to see a poet I know represented out of the countless thousands that abound in history.