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9 Dec: "Runner" by Walt Whitman


 "Runner" by Walt Whitman



ON a flat road runs the well-train’d runner; 
He is lean and sinewy, with muscular legs; 
He is thinly clothed—he leans forward as he runs, 
With lightly closed fists, and arms partially rais’d.

1 comment:

  1. Did he actually see this runner? I don't think a well trained runner would be leaning forward. Maybe well trained runners of the past might have. As someone who used to be a runner, I'm not feeling anything from this poem. Just a person watching a runner on the road.

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