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American poet Jane Kenyon

13 June 2024 at 20:31 | 2789 views

The Clothes Pin

By Jane Kenyon, USA

How much better it is
to carry wood to the fire
than to moan about your life.
How much better
to throw the garbage
onto the compost, or to pin the clean
sheet on the line
with a gray-brown wooden clothes pin!

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