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    FIVE POEMS

    Mar 02, 2020 2 minutes
    A. E. Stallings

    Getting In

    Some people jump, some people dive,
    Others inch by inch arrive

    And give themselves up to the chill,
    Piecemeal, with a grudging will:

    First toes, then ankles tempt the cold,
    And backs of knees, that, tender, fold,

    Then thighs that startA shock like ice that slaps the crotch

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