Joel Solkoff Poems

FORTY for Melissa Lyon

" Music that I heard with you was more than music/"
—Conrad Aiken
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It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any sort of self-deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events by which the path to success may be recognized.
-The I Ching or Book of Changes, Wilhelm Baynes edition, Princeton University Press

LAST YEAR'S GIFT
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