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Jean Toomer, from Cane; “Evening Song”

Text ID: Full moon rising on the waters of my heart,

 Up from the skeleton stone walls, up from the rotting floor boards and the solid hand-hewn beams of

Up from the skeleton stone walls, up from the rotting floor boards and the solid hand-hewn beams of oak of the pre-war cotton factory, dusk came.

- “Blood-Burning Moon,” from Cane (1923), J. Toomer


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theoptia:

Jean Toomer, from Cane; “Evening Song”

Text ID: Full moon rising on the waters of my heart,

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