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in broad daylight her gilded bedposts shine, abandoned, almost Dionysian. At last the trees are green on Marlborough Street, blossoms on our magnolia ignite the morning with their murderous five days’ white. All night I’ve held your hand, as if you had a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye and dragged me home alive. . . .Oh my Petite, clearest of all God’s creatures, still all air and nerve: you were in our twenties, and I, once hand on glass and heart in mouth, outdrank the Rahvs in the heat of Greenwich Village, fainting at your feet too boiled and shy and poker