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HONEY LOCUST by GERALD STERN

Poet Analysis

First Line: HERE ARE ABOUT SEVENTY SNAKES WAITING TO COME TO LIFE
Last Line: AND SING ABOUT THEIR LIVES LIKE OLD MUSICIANS %SINGING ABOUT THEIRS

Poem Sources:

THREE RIVERS; TEN YEARS.
  COSTANZO, GERALD (ED.)
  (1983)
 
LEAVING ANOTHER KINGDOM; SELECTED POEMS.
  STERN, GERALD
  (1990)
 



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