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ALT Tragic news: the tragedy was that it was usual and was not news.
ALT Appetite I eat these wild red raspberries still warm from the sun and smelling faintly of jewelweed in memory of my father tucking the napkin under his chin and bending over an ironstone bowl of the bright drupelets awash in cream my father with the sigh of a man who has seen all and been redeemed said time after time as he lifted his spoon men kill for this.
ALT END OF SUMMER An agitation of the air, A perturbation of the light Admonished me the unloved year Would turn on its hinge that night. I stood in the disenchanted field Amid the stubble and the stones, Amazed, while a small worm lisped to me The song of my marrow-bones. Blue poured into summer blue, A hawk broke from his cloudless tower, The roof of the silo blazed, and I knew That part of my life was over. Already the iron door of the north Clangs open: birds, leaves, snows Order their populations forth, And a cruel wind blows.
