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December 12, 2020  

Altitude
Lola Ridge

I wonder 
how it would be here with you,
where the wind 
that has shaken off its dust in low valleys
touches one cleanly, 
as with a new-washed hand, 
and pain
is as the remote hunger of droning things,
and anger 
but a little silence 
sinking into the great silence.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on December 12, 2020, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“Altitude” originally appeared in Sun-Up and Other Poems (B.W. Huebsch, inc., 1920).

Lola Ridge was born in Dublin on December 12, 1873. Her books include Sun-Up and Other Poems (B.W. Huebsch, inc., 1920) and Red Flag (Viking Press, 1927). She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1935 and the Shelley Memorial Award in 1936. She died on May 19, 1941.
Sun-Up and Other Poems
(B.W. Huebsch, inc., 1920)



 
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