Jeremiah Leaves

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    “Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Job, 3:3.

    A similar imprecation is found in Jeremiah 20:14-15.

    “I compare her
    to a fallen leaf.

    The noiseless wheels of my car
    rush with a crackling sound over
    dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling.”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)