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"FOR ALIX, WHO IS THREE Foreign country of her eyes picture-book blue as lakes she fingered while she read and taught me simple words like clé (like key), chocolate milk breath curled up in smiles for such a stranger in the room who animal by animal and thing by thing named big on the page had to be told again like clé (like key), her voice half gone to bed... came back transformed in faces that I knew or all one changing face in changing years one or few or many as pages turned and doors swung wide row on row on row... And there again was Alix, who was three who in foreign country of her eyes and chocolate smile gave me the key the clé I will throw away If ever I want to lock my doors again. 1972 1978 "

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Poem written by Emanuel in 1972/1978 dedicated to Alix Cordesse, a young girl whom renewed his desire to write.

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  • container title
    James A. Emanuel Papers
  • creator
    James A. Emanuel
  • issue
    BOX 4 FOLDER 26, "The Chopping Block (Selected Poems)," draft 1988 (1 of 2)
  • rights
    James A. Emanuel Estate
  • rights holder
    James A. Emanuel Estate
  • version
    1972/1978