Text of Poem | The creek retreats from flood rage Sap’s rise wakes an old tune. Yet for the moment I stand caught |
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First Line | The creek retreats from flood rage |
Original Pub Location | |
Original Publication Date | 1970 |
Original Citation | Virginia Quarterly Review 46 (Autumn 1970) 595. |
Complete Poems | 227, 388 |
Hearst Collections | |
Word Count | 110 |
Variant | The first two stanzas of "The Face of Things" were reused in the poem "Sap's Rise." |
Poetic Form | closed |
Observations | The first two stanzas of "The Face of Things" were reused in the poem "Sap's Rise." |
Themes |