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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STATION (3), by JAMES GALVIN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was teaching my little sister how to fly when she broke Last Line: "the snow is disappearing toward Subject(s): Mothers; Sisters | |||
I was teaching my little sister how to fly when she broke her arm. I did. I lay back in the snow and put my galoshes against her skinny butt and pushed her into the sky. Over and over upward into the falling, and the fallen caught her, and her laughter spilled. We got it wrong one time and that was it. I said, "Now, now." My mother's white station wagon disappeared into the snow on its way to the white hospital, and the volume turned up. Right now a spring snow falls and sublimes. The snowline retreats upward like a rising hem of sky. The snow is disappearing toward me. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HYMN FOR LANIE POO by AMIRI BARAKA CALMING KALI by LUCILLE CLIFTON FAR MEMORY: 1. CONVENT by LUCILLE CLIFTON FAR MEMORY: 4. TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS LIFE by LUCILLE CLIFTON FAR MEMORY: 6. KARMA by LUCILLE CLIFTON MY SISTER, THE QUEEN by EDWARD FIELD THE WOMAN WHO LOOKS FOR HER LOST SISTER SHE SAYS by LINDA GREGG A DISCRETE LOVE POEM by JAMES GALVIN |
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