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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN DREAM TIME, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear tomasito
Last Line: Just had a last fall
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons
First Line: Dear tomasito
Last Line: Just had a last fall
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons
Dear Tomasito:
We talk about dreams.
Yours always amaze me,
Though you've moved out
Beyond the castles.
As for me
I seem to spend many nights
Walking a perimeter of rotten ice
Around a bad break
Where someone less lucky
Just had a last fall.
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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