Lines Composed With Evan
The Staring Contest
He stares
In the childlike ambivalence
Of all things,
And I stare,
In the adult like return
Of all things,
Sharing in the ambivalence of all things—
This is, of course, but a whisper or
secret,
Of what youth brings.
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