Now touch the air softly, Step gently. One, two... I’ll lov… - William Jay Smith

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Now touch the air softly,
Step gently. One, two...
I’ll love you till roses
Are robin’s-egg blue;
I’ll love you till gravel
Is eaten for bread,
And lemons are orange,
And lavender’s red.

William Jay Smith

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William Jay Smith (April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015) was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.

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Thinking of you this evening,
I think of mystery;
I think of umbrellas of crystal
Shading a cinnamon sea;

Not ringed but rare, not gilled but polyp-like,
having sprung up overnight— These mushrooms of the gods, resembling human organs
uprooted, rooted only on the air,

The lariat snaps; the cowboy rolls
His pack, and mounts and rides away.
Back to the land the cowboy goes.

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