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AFIELD by RITA DOVE

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First Line: OUT WHERE CROWS DIP TO THEIR KILL
Last Line: then it's itch, scratch, putrescense
Full Poem Text Available at
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/dove/poems-RD.html#rd7


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