and she saw I was lying there laughing

The Laughing Child
W.S. Merwin

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"The Laughing Child" - Merwin Conservancy

When she looked down from the kitchen windowinto the back yard and the brown wickerbaby carriage in which she had tucked methree months old to lie out in the fresh airof my first January the carriagewas shaking she said and went on shakingand she saw I was lying there laughingshe told me about it later […]

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