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//To Military Progress// by Marianne Moore **You use your mind ** **Like a @millstone to grind ** ** Chaff. ** **You polish it ** **And with your warped wit ** ** Laugh ** **At your torso, ** **Prostrate where the crow ** ** Falls ** **On such faint hearts ** **As its god imparts, ** ** Calls ** **And claps its wings ** **Till the tumult brings ** ** More ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; vertical-align: super;">Black minute-men ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; vertical-align: super;">To revive again, ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; vertical-align: super;"> War ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; vertical-align: super;">At little cost. ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; vertical-align: super;">They cry for the lost ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; vertical-align: super;"> Head ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; vertical-align: super;">And seek their prize ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; vertical-align: super;">Till the evening sky's ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; vertical-align: super;"> Red. **

**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 280%; vertical-align: super;">//The Letter// by Amy Lowell ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">Like draggled fly's legs, ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">What can you tell of the flaring moon ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">Through the oak leaves? ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">Or of my uncurtained window and the bare floor ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">Spattered with moonlight? ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">Your silly quirks and twists have nothing in them ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">Of blossoming hawthorns, ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">And this paper is dull, crisp, smooth, virgin of loveliness ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">Beneath my hand. ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">The want of you; ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">Of squeezing it into little inkdrops, ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">And posting it. ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">And I scald alone, here, under the fire ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 180%; vertical-align: super;">Of the great moon. ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 340%; vertical-align: super;">**Works Cited** Martin, G. (1996). //Red Sky at Night.// Retrieved from The Phrase Finder: [] memidex. (2011, August 1). //Scald audio/definitions.// Retrieved from Memidex: [|http://www.memidex.com/scald#audio] Ronemus, A. (1995, July). //Minutemen.// Retrieved from UShistory.org: [] unknown. (n.d.). //scrawl.// Retrieved from [] UNKNOWN. (n.d.). //Tumult/ audio.// Retrieved from Merriam Webster: []