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Little Map
Little Map - Jean Valentine
Little Map
The white pine
the deer coming closer
the ant
in my bowl
– where did she go
when I brushed her out?
The candle
where does it go?
Our brush with each other
– two animal souls
without cave
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from Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003 (Wesleyan University Press, 2003), © Jean Valentine 2003, used by permission of the author and the publisher. Poetry Foundation recording made on 10 July 2007, New York