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    The poem describes a return to a stand of pines flanking the roadside, with an understory that creates a contrast of dark and light. Magnolia trees were blossoming as if an afterthought, with each white flower hanging like a surrendering flag among the branches. The speaker returns to the land's end on the coast, which has been clear cut and buried in sand.

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    The poem describes a return to a stand of pines flanking the roadside, with an understory that creates a contrast of dark and light. Magnolia trees were blossoming as if an afterthought, with each white flower hanging like a surrendering flag among the branches. The speaker returns to the land's end on the coast, which has been clear cut and buried in sand.

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    The poem describes a return to a stand of pines flanking the roadside, with an understory that creates a contrast of dark and light. Magnolia trees were blossoming as if an afterthought, with each white flower hanging like a surrendering flag among the branches. The speaker returns to the land's end on the coast, which has been clear cut and buried in sand.

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    “SOUTH” BY NATASHA TRETHEWEY

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    I returned to a stand of pines,


                                bone-thin phalanx
    flanking the roadside, tangle
                                of understory—a dialectic of dark
    and light—and magnolias blossoming
                                like afterthought: each flower
    a surrender, white flags draped
                                among the branches. I returned
    to land’s end, the swath of coast
                                clear cut and buried in sand:

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