"It’s getting late or rainy, and so the question is whether to continue the planting or finish the work another day:She wants to stop; he wants to get to the end, to stay with the thing—But instead of entering into the psychology of the couple, or putting them in dialogue, the poem takes a moment to zoom in:Look at her, touching his cheek to make a truce, her fingers cool with spring rain; in th..."
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