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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A GRAVE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: He was crying. Somebody get his mother
First Line: He was crying. Somebody get his mother
He was crying. Somebody get his mother.
All day the exhumed bodies in trash bags.
Men, women, dogs. Even a parakeet
under a cross made of popsicle sticks
with a name written on it. Not the meat.
The bones the children leave after eating.
Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org
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