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SWAN LEGS by GERALD STERN

Poet Analysis

First Line: JUST FOR A SECOND, WHEN MAO STOOD UP AND WALKED
Last Line: TO SOFTEN THE WILD FLESH AND KILL THE SUFFERING

Poem Sources:

THIS TIME; NEW AND SELECTED POEMS.
  STERN, GERALD
  (1998)
 



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