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MORNING OF MY MOTHER'S DEATH by JEAN VALENTINE

Poet Analysis

First Line: A THUMBNAIL-SIZED GLOBE OF BLOOD
Last Line: (WHISPER THIS:) %HER SILK SPIRIT IS LEAVING THE CROWN OF HER HEAD

Poem Sources:

THE RIVER AT WOLF.
  VALENTINE, JEAN
  (1992)
 



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