It is difficult.

   It is difficult
   to get the news from poems
   yet men die miserably every day
   for lack
   of what is found there.

"Asphodel asphodel (ăs`fədĕl'), name for plants of several genera of the family Lilaceae (lily family). The true asphodels belong to two small and very similar genera (Asphodelus and Asphodeline) of the Mediterranean region and India. The showy flower spike of the former is usually white; of the latter, yellow., That Greeny Flower" by William Carlos Williams, a physician and poet

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Title Annotation:	Another Dimension
Publication:	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Article Type:	Poem
Date:	Apr 1, 2004
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