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Where the dead feet walked in.
She sat here in her chair,
Smiling into the fire;
He who played stood there,
Bowing it higher and higher.
Childlike, I danced in a dream;
Blessings emblazoned that day;
Everything glowed with a gleam;
Yet we were looking away!
Campo's poem emphasizes the complex remembered past that underlies the Cuban family gathering; Hardy's concentrates on the long-ago moment, its absence of self-consciousness. Both poems recognize the vivid, intimate presence of the past.
(Rafael Campo's poem "A Simple Cuban Meal" is from his book "The Enemy." Duke Univ. Copyright 2007 by Rafael Campo. Thomas Hardy's poem "The Self-Unseeing" can be found in "The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy," edited by James Gibson. Macmillan.
Copyright 1976 by Macmillan London Ltd.)
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