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Vera Kilgore Heilig: Her Poetry Lives (2017) H. Morris Williams, Marie Law Haire

Comparison

I do not see a bit of you in him,

Not in his manner, nor his voice, nor face,
No gesture nor inflection, not a trace

Of your remembered presence that I go
Snatched by the force of my heart’s undertow

Into a past which should by now be dim.
No. There is nothing at all of you in him,

And yet if he but lifts his hand I know

A sudden pang of memory the slow
Erosion of the years cannot efface

Nor any conscious effort of the mind erase:
You didn’t do it thus, You did is so.

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