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DESERT WIFE: 10 by ADA HASTINGS HEDGES

Poem Explanation

First Line: IF ROADS WERE PASSABLE THEY DROVE TO TOWN
Last Line: THE DUSTY SCENT THAT QUICKENED IN HER BREAST %SOMETHING SHE THOUGHT HAD PERISHED WITH THE REST

Poem Sources:

FROM HERE WE SPEAK; AN ANTHOLOGY OF OREGON POETRY.
  WENDT, INGRID, & ST. JOHN, PRIMUS (EDS.)
  (1993)
 



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