Trying to Keep Quiet: A Poem Constructed around Fragments of Leslie Norris's "Borders"

Simon Peter Eggertsen

Genres

Poetry

Notes

I could give all to Time except–except

What I myself have held. But why declare

The things forbidden that while Customs slept

I have crossed to Safety with? For I am There

And what I would not part with I have kept.

–Robert Frost, "I Could Give all to Time"

Call number

BX 8605.1 .D541 vol.46 no.3

Pages

165-166

Language

English

First line

The border I knew best as a child was halfway over

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Published in	Dialogue, volume 46, issue 3, pages 165-166, Fall 2013