Walt Whitman fragments

As printed in our class literary journal Paper Cuts.

Paper Crane Fragments: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

By Madie Anderson

eras, dates, generations,

there, like space, inseparable

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537

politics of these

sun and moon, but

-self, not for a day

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world,

labor and the march,

mountains steep,

the unknown

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innocent joys

with joys mid rain and many a

snows and night and the wild winds

patient rugged joys, my soul’s strong