Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE FACE OF THE PRECIPICE IS BLACK WITH LOVERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH



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THE FACE OF THE PRECIPICE IS BLACK WITH LOVERS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are you now
Last Line: Scatching a living from the snow
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Snow; Separation; Isolation


Where are you now --
Little birds of the summer?

Letters still arrive . . .

Through the back window
I see a sparrow
Scatching a living from the snow . . .


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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