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The City Limits by A. R. Ammons - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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The City Limits - When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold

The City Limits Add to anthology × A. R. Ammons 1926 - 2001 When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold itself but pours its abundance without selection into every nook and cranny not overhung or hidden; when you consider that birds' bones make no awful noise against the light but lie low in the light as in a high testimony; when you consider the radiance, that it will look into the guiltiest swervings of the weaving heart and bear itself upon them, not flinching into disguise or darkening; when you consider the abundance of such resource as illuminates the glow-blue bodies

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