Kees

Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day

May break with dazzling light to these sick eyes

Burn, glare, old sun, so long unseen

That time may find it's sound again, and cleanse

Whatever it is that a wound remembers

After the healing ends

Weldon Kees

Small Prayer

1947

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Dan Wynn
Weldon Kees, California 1953

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