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TRANSLATION by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER

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First Line: PELICANS WITH THE NINE-FOOT WINGSPANS
Last Line: BAKED INTO CONCRETE, A FEATHER %BLOWN ACROSS SAND

Poem Sources:

THE CRACK IN EVERYTHING.
  OSTRIKER, ALICIA
  (1996)
 



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