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PALM BEACH WITH PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL

Poet Analysis

First Line: A MILE-LONG VERTEBRATE PICKED CLEAN
Last Line: EASE FROM THE DRY BREAST AND SHEET IN FOAM

Poem Sources:

LATE SETTINGS.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (1985)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. EDITED BY J.D. MCCLATCHY AND STEPHEN YENSER.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (2001)
 



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