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Original text: © Circles on the Water: Selected Poems of Marge Piercy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982): 38. 811.54 P37.6 Toronto Public Library
First publication date: 1969
Publication date note: Hard Loving: Poems by Marge Piercy (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1969): 23. PS 3566   I4H3   Robarts Library
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 2000.
Recent editing: 2:2002/4/11

Composition date: 1966
Composition date note: (Circles, 297)
Rhyme: unrhyming