First Line: BUT CAN SEE BETTER THERE, AND LAUGHING THERE Last Line: POUNDS BREAST-BONE PUNILY, SCREECHES, AND HAS %REACHED NO ALPS; OR, KNOWS NO ALPS TO REACH
Poem Sources:
LONGMAN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY. 2ND ED. FRIEBERT, STUART, & YOUNG, DAVID (EDS.) (1989)
WORLD OF GWENDOLYN BROOKS. BROOKS, GWENDOLYN (1971)
