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Silas Marner Redacted

lookingforwisdom:

Here is my “redacted” version of the George Eliot novel, “Silas Marner”. I have removed most of the text to leave a series of twenty short poems.  It was great fun to do. I made no effort to leave the plot intact. Hope you enjoy it. 

“Winter”

men experience vagueness
as winter
a long course ended
beyond the signs
of loneliness


“A Village”

a village of old sheep
lay nestled in a hollow
never reached by
the summits of fashion

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