Poems in Conversation

Poems in Conversation

Prompt: What do you see?

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Joan Biddle
Aug 29, 2025
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One of my favorite scenes in a movie is this scene from The English Patient (1996).

It’s a beautiful scene in the middle of a complicated movie in which Kip (a bomb defuser in World War II) takes Hana (a nurse) to a church in an Italian town to show her the beautiful paintings on the walls. The combination of the music, the light she holds, Kip holding …

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