Another Country: Poetic Dialogue with the Middlewesterner

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Friday, March 21, 2008

Poetic Dialogue with the Middlewesterner

LINES FOR MARCH 21

So winter
is down

like the old
cow she is

and spring
is gamboling

in.
We'll look
for the snow, say
Where'd it go?
And the spring,
Where've you been?