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Walt Whitman

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The 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, in order, little by little, over and over.

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 19m
He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and passed north,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 2h
And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 4h
And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 6h
And gave him a room that entered from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 8h
And brought water and filled a tub for his sweated body and bruised feet,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 10h
And went where he sat on a log, and led him in and assured him,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 12h
Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsey and weak,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 14h
I heard his motions crackling the twigs of the woodpile,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 16h
The runaway slave came to my house and stopped outside,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 18h
She had long eyelashes .... her head was bare .... her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reached to her feet.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 20h
One hand rested on his rifle .... the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 22h
On a bank lounged the trapper .... he was dressed mostly in skins .... his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Her father and his friends sat near by crosslegged and dumbly smoking .... they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders;
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far-west .... the bride was a red girl,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I tucked my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The boatmen and clamdiggers arose early and stopped for me,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My eyes settle the land .... I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Yankee clipper is under her three skysails .... she cuts the sparkle and scud,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kindling a fire and broiling the freshkilled game,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And roll head over heels, and tangle my hair full of wisps.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I jump from the crossbeams, and seize the clover and timothy,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I felt its soft jolts .... one leg reclined on the other,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am there .... I help .... I came stretched atop of the load,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The armfuls are packed to the sagging mow:
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The big doors of the country-barn stand open and ready,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I mind them or the resonance of them .... I come again and again.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What living and buried speech is always vibrating here .... what howls restrained by decorum,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What groans of overfed or half-starved who fall on the flags sunstruck or in fits,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The souls moving along .... are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The excited crowd – the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd;
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The flap of the curtained litter – the sick man inside, borne to the hospital,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The hurrahs for popular favorites .... the fury of roused mobs,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The carnival of sleighs, the clinking and shouted jokes and pelts of snowballs;
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The blab of the pave .... the tires of carts and sluff of bootsoles and talk of the promenaders,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is so .... I witnessed the corpse .... there the pistol had fallen.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I peeringly view them from the top.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The youngster and the redfaced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
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