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Love Comes Quietly by Robert Creeley

By The Sunday Paper Team
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Love Comes Quietly by Robert Creeley

Love comes quietly,
finally, drops
about me, on me, in the
old ways.

What did I know
thinking myself able to
go alone all the way.

—Robert Creeley

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