“The sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering
from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them:
the long, perfect loveliness of sow.”

—  Galway Kinnell

Saint Francis and the Sow (1986).

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Poet 1927–2014

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