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May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,
in...

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Human double-barreled eyes,
in their narrow blind,
hope to shoot and hit
-- if they can find it
-- the backward-speeding hole
of the Cyclops face of the future.

Source: In Metaphors Dictionary, by Elyse Sommer and Dorrie Weiss, 1995.
-- May Swenson, (May 28 1919-1989), US poet; She wrote New and Selected Things Taking Place, 1978.


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