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Hello and welcome to the Daily Poem.

I'm Heidi White and today is Monday, March 29th.

And today I'm going to read for you a poem by American poet Amy Loll.

Amy Loll was born in 1874, and she lived until 1925.

She was a poet of the Imagesst School, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.

She won the prize posthumously for her collection, What's a Clock?

And today's poem is called Opal, and this is how it goes.

You are ice and fire. The touch of you burns my hands like snow. You are cold and flame.

You are the crimson of Amarillus, the silver of moon-touched magnolias. When I am with you, my heart is a frozen pond, gleaming with agitated

torches. This is a really simple poem, a deceptively simple poem. I will posit here, and I'll

tell you what I mean by that. I mentioned a couple of minutes ago that

Amy Lull was a member of the Images School of Modern Poetry. That's capital M. Modern.

And she said of herself, God made me a businesswoman. I made myself a poet. I really like that

quote. I believe that it encapsulates Amy Loll's contribution to

20th century poetry because she did indeed make herself a poet. Her first poem was published when she was

36 years old and she essentially decided that she would become a poet. And she placed herself at the center of this

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