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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE INHERITANCE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poet's Biography
First Line: Like well diggers
Last Line: Will drink the darkness
Subject(s): Inheritance And Succession; Money
First Line: Like well diggers
Last Line: Will drink the darkness
Subject(s): Inheritance And Succession; Money
Like well diggers
The woodpeckers tunnel.
The spring mornings . . .
Green stopes and galleries
Where, later, the little owls
Will drink the darkness.
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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