Talk not to me of Summer Trees

Talk not to me of Summer Trees
The foliage of the mind
A Tabernacle is for Birds
Of no corporeal kind
And winds do go that way at noon
To their Ethereal Homes
Whose Bugles call the least of us
To undepicted Realms

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American poet known for her unconventional use of form and syntax. Most of her work was published posthumously.

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