From Changing North America by Peter Dale Scott, part I. We Are Not As We Are

From Changing North America by Peter Dale Scott

Having helped initiate
the liberators of Poland
Czeslaw Milosz said to a Harvard audience
that in every era
the task of the inspired poet 
is to transcend his paltry ego 
and remind the soul of the people 
of the open space ahead

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