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MEDIUM by BILLY COLLINS

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE WAY I LIKE TO LAY IT DOWN SOMETIMES
Last Line: TO READ WITH YOUR EYES SHUT TIGHT, %KNEELING IN THE SAND, FACING THE OPEN SEA

Poem Sources:

POETRY, V163#4, JANUARY /94.
  (1994)
 
THE ART OF DROWNING.
  COLLINS, BILLY
  (1995)
 



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