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Poetry:

Porter, Anne

Anne Porter A Sale Neighborhood Shopkeepers, bankers, poets, contractors, Watering quiet lawns And sleeping in warm houses. If even here Some ordinary grief can knife our hearts Down to the...

...If even here Some ordinary grief can knife our hearts Down to the very quick, How is it for those others...
...Famine is their nourishment Rubble of war their garden A freezing wind their home.r home...

Vol. 122 • July 1995 • No. 13


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