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CROSS TIES by X. J. KENNEDY

First Line: OUT WALKING TIES LEFT OVER FROM A TRACK
Last Line: THE SALT I THROW THE DEVIL SOME AND, STILL, %I LET THEM SPRINKLE WATER ON MY CHILD

Poem Sources:

ANNUAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN POETRY: 1985.
  (1987)
 
THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY ON CD. 20TH CENTURY: POETRY OF OUR TIME.
  (1998)
 
CROSS TIES; SELECTED POEMS.
  KENNEDY, X. J.
  (1985)
 



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