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IT IS NIGHT. IT IS VERY DARK by JANE HIRSHFIELD

Poet Analysis

First Line: RAINFALL PAST ANY INTERROGATION
Last Line: LIKE AN ELEPHANT TRAINED TO PAINT WHAT IS IN HER HEART

Poem Sources:

THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, V31#3, MAY-JUNE/02.
  (2002)
 



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