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Aurora Borealis, by Frederic Edwin Church
E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

The Sky Was
the
    sky
          was
can    dy    lu
minous
           edible
spry
       pinks shy
lemons
greens    coo    1 choc
olate
s.
 
 un    der,
 a    lo
co
mo
     tive        s  pout
                              ing
                                    vi
                                    o
                                    lets

#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury

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