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Fireside & Icicles — Poems for Winter

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Poems Can Refuse

Stephane does not have a category called aimless yearning. The closest one to it is maybe her first one. Feelings, and sometimes that's called lyric, give you the sense that you're inhabiting the soul or the psyche of the poet. It's as if the poem could speak for you, or from some version of you. Your joy, your anger, your selfhood is in there. Part of what makes don't read poetry.

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