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Kim Stafford has published a dozen books, including Singer Come from Afar (Red Hen Press, 2021), and was Oregon’s poet laureate from 2018–2020. He teaches and travels to raise the human spirit through poetry.
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Source: Poetry Foundation
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Please fill in the blanks using the correct form of the VERB given in the bracket and leave your answers in the comment. The answers will be revealed in the next episode.
The design committee for _ (make) the world
had stalled with the problem of drought.
“We have the sea over here, the desert
over there—how many roads do we need,
how many trucks, how many miles of pipe?”
At the back of the great hall _ (stand) the daughter
of the doorman, who had brought him supper.
She _ (pull) him down to whisper in his ear
her dream of the mystery of mist. “My child,”
he whispered, “that makes no sense at all.”
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