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PILE OF FEATHERS by GERALD STERN

Poet Analysis

First Line: THIS TIME THERE WAS NO BEAK
Last Line: THEIR LONG LEGS TWISTED IN EMBARRASSMENT, %THEIR KNEES SCRAPING THE STONES, %THEY BEGIN CRAWLING AFT

Poem Sources:

LEAVING ANOTHER KINGDOM; SELECTED POEMS.
  STERN, GERALD
  (1990)
 



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