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MY HUT; AFTER TRAN QUANG KHAI by HAYDEN CARRUTH

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First Line: BUILT LONG AGO, OLD
Last Line: and on these shoulders / and hands
Subject(s): HOUSES;
Built long ago, old
sills rotting in mud,
filled now with soft ash
from a thousand fires that warmed me,
ash settled indelibly
on these books, never
to be clean again,
and on these shoulders
and hands.


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