• Light gatherer. You fell from a star into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside mirrored in you, and now you shine like a snowgirl, a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder you squeal at and fly in.

  Source: The Light Gatherer, from Feminine Gospels (2002)

  Carol Ann Duffy
  British poet and playwright
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. buttercup
2. mirrored
3. snowgirl
4. yonder
5. squeal

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Light gatherer. You fell from a star into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside mirrored in you, and now you shine like a snowgirl, a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder you squeal at and fly in. by : Carol Ann Duffy

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