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Robert Creeley
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Robert Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1926. He attended...
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A Poem

 
by Robert Creeley

If the water forms
the forms of the weeds, there—

a long life is not by that
a necessarily happy one.

My friend. We
reckon on a simple

agreement,
the fashion of a stone

underground.






From The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley (University of California Press, 2006). Copyright © 2006 by the Estate of Robert Creeley. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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