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IT WAS LIKE THIS: YOU WERE HAPPY by JANE HIRSHFIELD

Poem Explanation Poet Analysis

First Line: IT WAS LIKE THIS: %YOU WERE HAPPY, THEN YOU WERE SAD
Last Line: SOMETIMES YOU ATE ROASTED CHESTNUTS, SOMETIMES PERSIMMONS

Poem Sources:

THE NEW YORKER, JAN 6 /03.
  (2003)
 



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