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Annie Finch
Annie Finch
Poet, translator, librettist, editor and critic Annie Finch is the author of many books of poetry and critical works...
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Landing Under Water, I See Roots

 
by Annie Finch

All the things we hide in water
hoping we won't see them go—
(forests growing under water
press against the ones we know)—

and they might have gone on growing
and they might now breathe above
everything I speak of sowing
(everything I try to love).





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October 19, 2006
Academy of American Poets Offices
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From Calendars by Annie Finch, published by Tupelo Press. Copyright © 2003 by Annie Finch. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Tupelo Press.
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