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The Pear Tree in Kunitz's backyard (Source: Tara Ellsworth, 2003)

Stanley Kunitz Biography Works Photos Father wherever you are I have only three throws bless my good right arm. In the haze of afternoon, while the air flowed saffron, I played my game for keeps-- for love, for poetry, and for eternal life-- after the trials of summer. -from 'The Testing Tree 'by Stanley Kunitz