"Between the World and Me" and Other Poems Poem Text

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"Between the World and Me" and Other Poems Poem Text

Between the World and Me (Excerpt)

And one morning while in the woods I stumbled
suddenly upon the thing,
Stumbled upon it in a grassy clearing guarded by scaly
oaks and elms
And the sooty details of the scene rose, thrusting
themselves between the world and me....

-Richard Wright

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