Cane (Toomer)/Face

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Face
Hair—silver-gray,like streams of stars,Brows—recurved canoesquivered by the ripples blown by pain,Her eyes—mist of tearscondensing on the flesh belowAnd her channeled musclesare cluster grapes of sorrowpurple in the evening sunnearly ripe for worms.
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