‘Too much my own’

A mayfly

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“Watching those lifelong dancers of a day
As night closed in, I felt myself alone
In a life too much my own.…’’

— From “Mayflies,’’ by Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), mostly Massachusetts-based poet

Here’s the whole poem.

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