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Born in September 20, 1928 / United States / English

Poems by Donald Hall

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The Black-Faced Sheep

... * Now the black-faced sheep have wandered and will not return,  ...

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Advent

... When I know that the grave is empty, ...

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Stump

...   It is a door into the underground of old summers,  ...

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Convergences

... s approach and her fifty-year-old body smothers under water ...

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Maple Syrup

... Last summer we called on her at the nursing home,  ...

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The Wreckage

... the tracks laid through an acre of wheat stubble,  ...

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Poem with One Fact

... from alleys behind pet shops, from cellars  ...

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A Sister on the Tracks

... Between pond and sheepbarn, by maples and watery birches,  ...

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Ox Cart Man

...   When the cart is sold he sells the ox,  ...

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Olives

...   Instead the poet, wearing his cape,  ...

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Eating the Pig

... exalted, and dead, and historians who carved in the Old Kingdom  ...

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The Ship Pounding

... s room  to interrogate the grave helpers  ...

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Closings

...   8 If he walked their dog Keeper one block, ...