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BLOOD by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER

Poet Analysis

First Line: HE CLOSED HIS MOUTH LIKE A DOOR. THE BLOOD OF THE CHICKEN WAS THERE
Last Line: HE WAS EMBARRASSED. IN DUE TIME, HE WOULD MAKE HIS HEART CLOT

Poem Sources:

A WOMAN UNDER THE SURFACE.
  OSTRIKER, ALICIA
  (1982)
 



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