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THE INHERITANCE by THOMAS MCGRATH

First Line: LIKE WELL DIGGERS
Last Line: Will drink the darkness
Subject(s): INHERITANCE AND SUCCESSION; MONEY;

Like well diggers
The woodpeckers tunnel.
The spring mornings . . .
Green stopes and galleries
Where, later, the little owls
Will drink the darkness.


Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org



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