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PoemsOften the slightest gesture is most telling, as when he reaches tenderly in passing to pluck the yellow leaf from the dark fall
of her hair, or even the absence of all gesture:
It was as if he dreamed some private garden.
and maybe even now she’s shuttering in
did anyone notice? how could he do that here!—
this morning in the Delft show at the Met: glea ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 23 November 2004, on page 28 Copyright © 2008 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/weighing-light-1151
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